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Mesoscale Discussion 1795
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 10, 2015, 7:35 PM CDT for 20 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Harper County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 10, 2015, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 2015, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:35 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 733 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 358 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 7:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 46 more | 93 min |
| Sep 10, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 46 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 10, 10:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 20 more | 87 min |
| Sep 11, 12:53 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Delaware, Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Mayes and 8 more | 67 min |
| Sep 11, 2:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Creek, Lincoln, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 93 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.