Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2015
Mesoscale Discussion 1948
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Nov 16, 2015, 1:58 PM CST for 14 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 16, 2015, 1:58 PM CST (19:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 2015, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 24 counties
Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 883 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 12:44 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell and 9 more | 3 hr |
| Nov 16, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 16, 3:34 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 16, 3:51 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 11 more | 114 min |
| Nov 16, 5:20 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 8 more | 115 min |
| Nov 16, 5:56 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Meade, Seward | 94 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.