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Mesoscale Discussion 932

June 7, 201518 counties in Kansas; 18 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 7, 2015, 9:38 PM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas; 18 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 97 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2015, 9:38 PM CDT (02:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2015, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 97 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 36 counties

Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Miami County, KS, Osage County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:40 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 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 1557 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2044 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 7, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Chase, Clay, Coffey and 25 more	7 hr
Jun 7, 11:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Chase, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Greenwood and 7 more	91 min
Jun 7, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Knox, Lewis, Lincoln and 6 more	7 hr
Jun 7, 9:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Audrain, Callaway, Lincoln, Monroe, Montgomery, Pike and 1 more	53 min
Jun 8, 12:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butler, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Scott and 1 more	97 min
Jun 8, 12:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot	8 hr
Jun 8, 2:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Audrain, Knox, Lewis, Marion, Monroe, Pike and 2 more	118 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2015 Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.