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Mesoscale Discussion 1476
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 19, 2015, 1:03 AM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 2015, 1:03 AM CDT (06:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2015, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Lane County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:05 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 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3123 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 18, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 18, 8:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas and 12 more | 60 min |
| Jul 18, 10:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman and 2 more | 96 min |
| Jul 19, 2:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 19, 5:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Geary, Jewell, Marshall, Ottawa and 4 more | 85 min |
| Jul 19, 2:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan, Rawlins and 6 more | 117 min |
| Jul 19, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 24 more | 8 hr |
Nearby
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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.