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Mesoscale Discussion 1615
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 5, 2015, 6:40 AM CDT for 30 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Missouri; 6 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 95 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 2015, 6:40 AM CDT (11:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2015, 8:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 95 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barton County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Jasper County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Craig County, OK, Kay County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:39 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 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 170 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, 3:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Dickinson and 22 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 4:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 5, 8:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 9 more | 97 min |
| Aug 5, 1:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin | 114 min |
| Aug 5, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 4 hr |
| Aug 5, 3:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin | 97 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.