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Mesoscale Discussion 534

May 7, 201529 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 7, 2015, 1:44 PM CDT for 29 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 7, 2015, 1:44 PM CDT (18:44 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2015, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 40%

All 29 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gray County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Washington County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:46 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 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
May 6, 7:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 37 more	65 min
May 6, 8:31 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cloud, Cowley and 28 more	5 hr
May 6, 9:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson and 29 more	95 min
May 6, 11:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Cowley and 27 more	88 min
May 7, 2:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton, Stanton and 1 more	118 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.