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Mesoscale Discussion 2007
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Dec 12, 2015, 5:42 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 12, 2015, 5:42 PM CST (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 12, 2015, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 59 counties
Fremont County, IA, Page County, IA, Atchison County, KS, Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Holt County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Fillmore County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Thayer County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 1801 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 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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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.