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Mesoscale Discussion 1972

November 17, 20156 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Nov 17, 2015, 2:43 PM MST for 6 states. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 17, 2015, 2:43 PM MST (21:43 UTC)
Expired: Nov 17, 2015, 6:45 PM MST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 24 counties

Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Logan County, KS, Morton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 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 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 186 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 90 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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
Nov 16, 8:05 PM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso	4 hr
Nov 17, 4:32 AM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert and 10 more	4 hr
Nov 17, 9:27 AM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 14 more	4 hr
Nov 16, 6:43 PM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan, Norton and 9 more	92 min
Nov 16, 7:07 PM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Gray, Haskell and 7 more	83 min
Nov 16, 7:17 PM MST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 22 more	7 hr
Nov 16, 9:19 PM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, McPherson, Pratt and 4 more	86 min
Nov 16, 11:58 PM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Reno, Rice and 2 more	2 hr
Nov 17, 12:48 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Chautauqua, Cowley, Labette, Montgomery	5 hr
Nov 16, 5:50 PM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Custer, Garfield, Greeley, Howard, Nance, Sherman and 1 more	85 min
Nov 16, 5:10 PM MST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Lea	8 hr
Nov 17, 3:35 AM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Atoka, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Delaware and 14 more	115 min
Nov 17, 3:48 AM MST	Tornado Watch	SPC	McCurtain	4 hr
Nov 16, 7:16 PM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Dawson and 26 more	89 min
Nov 16, 9:45 PM MST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Collin, Comanche and 33 more	7 hr
Nov 17, 1:17 AM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell and 21 more	118 min
Nov 17, 3:18 AM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Bowie, Brazos, Camp and 39 more	57 min
Nov 17, 7:24 AM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Gregg, Hardin, Harrison, Jasper, Marion and 10 more	66 min
Nov 17, 7:55 AM MST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Angelina, Bowie, Cass, Chambers, Fort Bend, Hardin and 21 more	7 hr
Nov 17, 11:19 AM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Sabine	116 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2015 Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2015 Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.