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Mesoscale Discussion 1276
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 1, 2015, 11:06 PM CDT for Bourbon County, Crawford County, Kansas; 15 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 2015, 11:06 PM CDT (04:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2015, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Bourbon County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Greene County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Polk County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:06 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 2985 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1028 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 457 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.7
- Supercell composite
- 27.9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 7:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Johnson, Linn, Miami | 83 min |
| Jul 2, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 4 hr |
| Jul 2, 3:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson, Jewell and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 8:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Callaway, Cape Girardeau, Cole, Crawford, Dent and 21 more | 119 min |
| Jul 2, 11:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Scott, Stoddard | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 2:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | McDonald, Ozark, Taney | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 5:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, New Madrid, Pemiscot | 115 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.