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Mesoscale Discussion 649

May 21, 201418 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 21, 2014, 10:49 PM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 86 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 21, 2014, 10:49 PM CDT (03:49 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2014, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 86 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 22 counties

Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 188 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 184 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3153 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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
May 22, 2:16 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Ellis and 22 more	119 min
May 22, 5:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 6 more	93 min
May 22, 5:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Morton	65 min
May 22, 6:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley and 15 more	55 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.