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Mesoscale Discussion 325

April 16, 20154 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 16, 2015, 6:44 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 16, 2015, 6:44 PM MDT (00:44 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 2015, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 80%

Counties Baca County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Morton County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:47 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 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 1121 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 149 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
Apr 17, 11:58 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan, Phillips and 2 more	92 min
Apr 17, 4:05 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington and 1 more	2 hr
Apr 17, 4:37 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick and 2 more	7 hr
Apr 16, 8:17 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Harper, Sumner	88 min
Apr 17, 2:06 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney and 24 more	84 min
Apr 16, 6:08 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Ellis, Roger Mills	2 hr
Apr 16, 6:16 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer and 10 more	89 min
Apr 16, 7:56 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Roger Mills	94 min
Apr 16, 9:20 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Ellis, Harmon, Roger Mills	2 hr
Apr 16, 10:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer and 4 more	5 hr
Apr 17, 1:02 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer and 6 more	88 min
Apr 17, 3:43 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Custer and 8 more	62 min
Apr 16, 7:20 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris and 2 more	85 min
Apr 16, 7:36 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston and 10 more	3 hr
Apr 16, 10:33 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston and 6 more	87 min
Apr 17, 12:10 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens and 13 more	95 min
Apr 17, 9:26 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Edwards and 12 more	2 hr
Apr 17, 9:55 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 15 more	2 hr
Apr 17, 10:53 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Atascosa, Bandera, Baylor, Bee, Bell and 73 more	7 hr
Apr 17, 12:31 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Dimmit, Frio and 12 more	89 min
Apr 17, 2:22 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aransas, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt and 11 more	113 min
Apr 17, 2:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Aransas, Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Brazoria, Brazos and 30 more	6 hr
Apr 17, 4:02 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Clay and 28 more	88 min
Apr 17, 4:41 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aransas, Atascosa, Bee, Brazoria, Brooks, Calhoun and 26 more	94 min
Apr 17, 5:57 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Calhoun, Duval, Goliad and 16 more	5 hr

Nearby

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