Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2015
Mesoscale Discussion 773
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 25, 2015, 6:39 PM CDT for 33 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 96 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2015, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2015, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 96 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties
Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -273 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 997 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 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 24, 7:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Finney, Gove, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton and 12 more | 115 min |
| May 24, 9:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell and 7 more | 89 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 |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.