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Mesoscale Discussion 369
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 18, 2015, 8:11 PM CDT for 30 counties in Kansas; 14 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 18, 2015, 8:11 PM CDT (01:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2015, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Graham County, KS, Harper County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2335 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 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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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 8:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan and 3 more | 63 min |
| Apr 19, 12:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Labette and 4 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.