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Mesoscale Discussion 1610
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 4, 2015, 3:29 PM CDT for 29 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 2015, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2015, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Barton County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 983 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -213 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 899 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 11:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Jewell and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 4, 5:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clark, Edwards, Ellsworth, Finney, Ford and 11 more | 66 min |
| Aug 4, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney and 12 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.