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Mesoscale Discussion 437
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 24, 2015, 2:14 PM CDT for 27 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 91 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 2015, 2:14 PM CDT (19:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2015, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 91 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 27 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 411 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -169 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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 24, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson and 36 more | 6 hr |
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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.