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Mesoscale Discussion 138
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 25, 2015, 10:56 AM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 2015, 10:56 AM CDT (15:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2015, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 25 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Linn County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:57 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1487 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 1:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Labette, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Labette, Montgomery | 8 hr |
| Mar 25, 5:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee | 87 min |
| Mar 24, 7:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Dent, Gasconade, Howard and 9 more | 116 min |
| Mar 25, 1:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Christian, Douglas, Howell, Lawrence, McDonald and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 25, 6:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Madison, Mississippi, New Madrid and 3 more | 59 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.