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Mesoscale Discussion 526
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 8, 2014, 3:22 PM CDT for 20 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Missouri; Kay County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 113 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2014, 3:22 PM CDT (20:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2014, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 26 counties
Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Holt County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Kay County, OK
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 561 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -275 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1107 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Marshall, Nemaha and 4 more | 87 min |
| May 8, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chautauqua and 23 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 6:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 20 more | 2 hr |
| May 7, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Jefferson and 4 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 11:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cleveland, Garvin, Grady, Jefferson, Love and 7 more | 93 min |
| May 8, 2:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more | 56 min |
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.