Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2014
Mesoscale Discussion 1700
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 9, 2014, 5:26 PM CDT for 29 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 94 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 2014, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 29 counties
Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gray County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ness County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 117 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 786 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -203 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1416 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 3:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Doniphan, Jewell, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic and 2 more | 114 min |
| Sep 9, 3:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Cloud, Doniphan, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell and 7 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 9, 3:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 114 min |
| Sep 9, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Logan and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 9, 5:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Cloud, Doniphan, Jewell, Marshall and 8 more | 54 min |
| Sep 9, 6:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Logan and 9 more | 88 min |
| Sep 9, 6:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell, Nemaha, Republic and 1 more | 90 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2014Every mesoscale discussion in 2014
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.