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Mesoscale Discussion 250
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 2, 2014, 6:00 PM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas; Barton County, Jasper County, Vernon County, Missouri; 16 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2014, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Craig County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Washington County, OK, Woods County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 1841 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 483 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 444 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 11:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 35 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 2:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Labette and 3 more | 116 min |
| Apr 2, 2:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 2, 9:17 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson, Lincoln, Maries and 10 more | 88 min |
| Apr 2, 3:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Scott, Stoddard | 2 hr |
| Apr 1, 8:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 10 more | 87 min |
| Apr 1, 9:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady and 7 more | 93 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.