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Mesoscale Discussion 1565
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 28, 2015, 4:50 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 2015, 4:50 PM CDT (21:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2015, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 46 counties
Atchison County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clark County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Buchanan County, MO, Beaver County, OK, Harper County, OK, Hansford County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Roberts County, TX
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 721 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -285 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1383 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 28, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Dickinson, Doniphan, Geary and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 28, 3:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Harrison, Holt, Mercer, Nodaway, Putnam and 2 more | 2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.