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Mesoscale Discussion 564
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 11, 2014, 1:46 PM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas; Ellis County, Harper County, Oklahoma; 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 119 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 2014, 1:46 PM CDT (18:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2014, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 95%
All 28 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Gray County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 2327 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 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 10, 7:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Barton, Bourbon and 60 more | 91 min |
| May 10, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay and 29 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 11:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay and 29 more | 96 min |
| May 11, 2:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Jackson, Jewell, Marshall and 7 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 12:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Geary and 13 more | 116 min |
| May 11, 2:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Ottawa, Phillips and 4 more | 8 hr |
| May 11, 2:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 16 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 5:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Edwards and 25 more | 89 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.