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Mesoscale Discussion 1433
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 15, 2015, 3:36 PM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado; 22 counties in Kansas; Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 2015, 3:36 PM MDT (21:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2015, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 25 counties
Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Cimarron County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 1897 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 14, 7:43 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers, Yuma | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 4:25 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Delta, Garfield, Mesa, Moffat, Montrose, Rio Blanco and 2 more | 65 min |
| Jul 15, 2:37 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary, Lincoln and 12 more | 83 min |
| Jul 15, 4:47 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Douglas, Geary, Jackson, Jefferson and 14 more | 58 min |
| Jul 15, 5:09 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Douglas, Franklin, Geary and 13 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.