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Mesoscale Discussion 519
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 6, 2015, 3:24 PM CDT for 32 counties in Kansas; 20 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2015, 3:24 PM CDT (20:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2015, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 52 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Washington County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Gage County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Polk County, NE, Saline County, NE, Seward County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 1:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clay, Cloud, Comanche, Dickinson and 31 more | 3 hr |
| May 6, 1:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 31 more | 7 hr |
| May 6, 5:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth and 23 more | 84 min |
| May 6, 6:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greeley, Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace, Wichita | 89 min |
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.