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Mesoscale Discussion 183

April 2, 201515 counties in Kansas; 17 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 2, 2015, 1:37 AM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas; 17 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 113 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2015, 1:37 AM CDT (06:37 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2015, 3:30 AM CDT
In force: 113 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 20%

All 32 counties

Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Morris County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Sullivan County, MO

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:38 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 57 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 304 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -218 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1810 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 1, 7:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Harper	64 min
Apr 1, 8:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Republic, Smith and 1 more	95 min
Apr 1, 11:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cloud, Marshall, Republic, Washington	54 min
Apr 2, 5:22 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Linn, Miami	113 min
Apr 2, 4:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Labette and 3 more	88 min
Apr 2, 11:50 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid and 6 more	85 min
Apr 2, 2:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Camden, Crawford, Dallas, Dent, Douglas, Franklin and 22 more	89 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2015 Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2015 Every 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.