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Mesoscale Discussion 1537
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 25, 2015, 6:46 PM CDT for 42 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 89 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 2015, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2015, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties
Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Barton County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Platte County, MO
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -456 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1208 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 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 25, 12:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Doniphan | 2 hr |
| Jul 25, 2:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Chase, Dickinson, Douglas, Ellsworth, Franklin and 21 more | 95 min |
| Jul 25, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 33 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 25, 4:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Ford, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley and 15 more | 91 min |
| Jul 25, 5:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins | 2 hr |
| Jul 24, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Christian, Dallas, Douglas, Greene, Laclede, Ozark and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 7:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Christian, Dallas, Douglas, Greene, Laclede, Ozark and 5 more | 24 min |
| Jul 24, 9:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Christian, Dallas, Douglas, Greene, Laclede, Ozark and 5 more | 60 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.