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Mesoscale Discussion 752

May 24, 201513 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2015, 9:16 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 89 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2015, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2015, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 89 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Meade County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:16 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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 108 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 819 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.3

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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 24, 7:05 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Finney, Gove, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton and 12 more	115 min
May 24, 11:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman, Meade and 1 more	56 min
May 25, 12:34 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa, Meade	56 min
May 25, 2:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 29 more	57 min
May 25, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cloud and 30 more	5 hr
May 25, 5:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha	67 min
May 25, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atchison, Doniphan	6 hr
May 25, 6:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cloud, Cowley and 27 more	96 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.