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Mesoscale Discussion 651
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 22, 2014, 2:16 AM CDT for 28 counties in Kansas; Buchanan County, Holt County, Platte County, Missouri; 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 119 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2014, 2:16 AM CDT (07:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2014, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 36 counties
Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Geary County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Smith County, KS, Trego County, KS, Washington County, KS, Buchanan County, MO, Holt County, MO, Platte County, MO, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Thayer County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:17 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 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 2033 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1518 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
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 21, 10:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln and 12 more | 86 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 |
| May 22, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.