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Mesoscale Discussion 773

June 1, 20146 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 1, 2014, 1:39 AM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 96 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2014, 1:39 AM CDT (06:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2014, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 96 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 5%

Counties Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Meade County, KS, Seward County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:40 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 407 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1947 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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
Jun 1, 1:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne, Phillips and 3 more	2 hr
Jun 1, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and 17 more	10 hr
Jun 1, 1:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 29 more	114 min
Jun 1, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur and 48 more	7 hr
Jun 1, 3:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Cloud, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln, Marshall and 9 more	63 min
Jun 1, 6:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 35 more	91 min
Jun 1, 6:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Coffey, Doniphan and 20 more	85 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.