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Mesoscale Discussion 1533
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 25, 2015, 3:59 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 91 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 2015, 3:59 PM MDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2015, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 91 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 31 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 585 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1779 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 25, 4:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 2 hr |
| Jul 24, 11:33 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Doniphan | 2 hr |
| Jul 25, 1:55 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Chase, Dickinson, Douglas, Ellsworth, Franklin and 21 more | 95 min |
| Jul 25, 2:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 33 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 25, 5:46 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 36 more | 89 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 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.