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Mesoscale Discussion 61

February 4, 201431 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 4, 2014, 3:34 AM CST for 31 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 4, 2014, 3:34 AM CST (09:34 UTC)
Expired: Feb 4, 2014, 8:30 AM CST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 44 counties

Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:38 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 text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 4, 6:07 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Coffey, Crawford and 10 more	5 hr
Feb 4, 11:38 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Clay, Dickinson, Doniphan and 20 more	6 hr
Feb 4, 5:45 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Sequoyah	5 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2014 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.