Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2015
Mesoscale Discussion 1059
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 18, 2015, 12:26 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 2015, 12:26 PM MDT (18:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2015, 2:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 28 counties
Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Union County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -306 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 2:49 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Sedgwick | 116 min |
| Jun 18, 1:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca | 8 hr |
| Jun 18, 2:37 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca | 113 min |
| Jun 18, 4:31 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Nacogdoches, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby | 89 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2015Every mesoscale discussion in 2015
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.