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Mesoscale Discussion 1710
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 18, 2015, 5:15 PM CDT for 32 counties in Kansas; 44 counties in Missouri; 17 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 90 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 2015, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2015, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 93 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison 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, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Audrain County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Camden County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Dade County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Polk County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Shelby County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Washington County, OK, Washita County, OK
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 355 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1407 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -84 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 17, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 17, 10:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 2 hr |
| Aug 18, 2:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 34 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 37 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 18, 12:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Callaway, Clark, Cole, Crawford, Dent and 20 more | 116 min |
| Aug 18, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson, Lewis, Lincoln and 11 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 18, 1:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark | 8 hr |
| Aug 18, 3:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Iron, Jefferson, Lincoln and 14 more | 119 min |
| Aug 18, 6:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Iron, Jefferson and 13 more | 115 min |
| Aug 18, 3:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Roger Mills | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2015Mesoscale 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.