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Mesoscale Discussion 865

June 6, 201429 counties in Kansas; Red Willow County, Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 6, 2014, 4:03 PM CDT for 29 counties in Kansas; Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 117 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 2014, 4:03 PM CDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2014, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 117 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 60%

All 30 counties

Clark County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 110 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -354 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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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
Jun 5, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cherokee	7 hr
Jun 6, 1:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 14 more	3 hr
Jun 6, 5:22 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 26 more	8 hr
Jun 6, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 2 more	7 hr
Jun 6, 6:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 11 more	2 hr
Jun 6, 1:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherry, Cheyenne, Garden, Grant, Morrill, Sheridan	2 hr
Jun 6, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Arthur, Banner, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne, Custer and 15 more	7 hr
Jun 6, 3:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arthur, Cherry, Cheyenne, Deuel, Garden, Grant and 5 more	58 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.