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Mesoscale Discussion 208
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 27, 2014, 11:47 AM CDT for 27 counties in Kansas; 24 counties in Missouri; 6 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 2014, 11:47 AM CDT (16:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2014, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 57 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Brown County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Henry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Newton County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:50 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 436 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 540 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 12:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chautauqua and 24 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 27, 2:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Linn, Miami | 85 min |
| Mar 27, 3:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Christian, Clark and 37 more | 55 min |
| Mar 27, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Barry, Barton, Benton, Boone, Callaway and 43 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.