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Mesoscale Discussion 884
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 4, 2015, 9:42 AM CDT for 22 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 93 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2015, 9:42 AM CDT (14:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2015, 11:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 32 counties
Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:41 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 5 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
- 659 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 761 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 8:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis and 26 more | 115 min |
| Jun 3, 11:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Greeley, Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace and 1 more | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Graham, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell and 8 more | 89 min |
| Jun 4, 1:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jackson and 8 more | 94 min |
| Jun 4, 4:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jewell, Marshall, Norton, Phillips, Republic, Smith and 1 more | 89 min |
| Jun 4, 12:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Geary, Marshall, Pottawatomie, Republic and 3 more | 94 min |
| Jun 4, 3:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Cheyenne, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 22 more | 92 min |
| Jun 4, 4:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Meade, Seward | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.