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Mesoscale Discussion 923

June 9, 201410 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 9, 2014, 2:32 PM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 118 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 2014, 2:32 PM CDT (19:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2014, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 118 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 20%

Counties Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 202 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1069 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 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 8, 7:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Morton, Stevens	96 min
Jun 8, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Beaver, Texas	7 hr
Jun 8, 11:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Tillman	86 min
Jun 9, 2:28 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carter, Jefferson, Johnston, Love, Marshall	2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.