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Mesoscale Discussion 322
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 16, 2015, 6:23 PM CDT for 29 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 97 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2015, 6:23 PM CDT (23:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2015, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 97 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morris County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 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, 11.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1583 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 12:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 34 more | 118 min |
| Apr 16, 3:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Edwards, Ellis and 32 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford and 17 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.