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Mesoscale Discussion 1450

July 17, 201524 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 20 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 17, 2015, 4:52 PM CDT for 24 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 20 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 17, 2015, 4:52 PM CDT (21:52 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 2015, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
20%
All 46 counties

Clark County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 8:11 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 8 more3 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.