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Mesoscale Discussion 1614
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 5, 2015, 3:00 AM CDT for 28 counties in Kansas; Nowata County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 2015, 3:00 AM CDT (08:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2015, 5:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 29 counties
Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Nowata County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:03 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 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 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 915 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 8:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 15 more | 90 min |
| Aug 5, 4:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 5, 6:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 24 more | 95 min |
| Aug 5, 8:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 9 more | 97 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.