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Mesoscale Discussion 894

June 4, 201511 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 4, 2015, 11:29 PM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 2015, 11:29 PM CDT (04:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2015, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Trego County, KS, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:30 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 1814 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 754 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.9

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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
Jun 4, 7:06 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Logan and 10 more	5 hr
Jun 4, 8:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Coffey and 13 more	65 min
Jun 5, 1:22 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 31 more	113 min
Jun 5, 1:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 18 more	3 hr
Jun 5, 5:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton and 5 more	53 min
Jun 5, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Grant, Greeley and 14 more	7 hr
Jun 5, 6:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace	61 min
Jun 4, 9:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Kimball	115 min
Jun 5, 1:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Banner, Kimball, Scotts Bluff	86 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2015 Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.