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Mesoscale Discussion 441
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 24, 2015, 7:21 PM CDT for 38 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 2015, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2015, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties
Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa 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, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Trego County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2048 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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.