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Mesoscale Discussion 529
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 8, 2014, 6:39 PM CDT for 26 counties in Kansas; 25 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2014, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2014, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 51 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon 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, Greenwood 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, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Worth County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 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
- 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, 3:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chautauqua, Coffey, Cowley and 14 more | 113 min |
| May 8, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chautauqua and 23 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.