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Mesoscale Discussion 347

April 17, 20157 counties in Kansas; Furnas County, Harlan County, Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 17, 2015, 8:24 PM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas; Furnas County, Harlan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 17, 2015, 8:24 PM CDT (01:24 UTC)
Expired: Apr 17, 2015, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 20%

Counties Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Russell County, KS, Smith County, KS, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:26 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 317 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1257 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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, 7:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards and 28 more	84 min
Apr 17, 7:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Grant, Morton, Stevens	2 hr
Apr 17, 8:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 28 more	94 min
Apr 18, 12:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Harper, Kingman, Pratt	60 min
Apr 18, 1:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa and 1 more	113 min
Apr 18, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Barton, Butler, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 27 more	8 hr
Apr 18, 2:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins and 3 more	116 min
Apr 18, 3:08 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more	6 hr
Apr 18, 4:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cowley, Dickinson and 9 more	2 hr
Apr 18, 5:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 24 more	59 min
Apr 18, 6:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan and 3 more	53 min
Apr 17, 11:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln	57 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.