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Mesoscale Discussion 980
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 11, 2015, 7:54 PM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 96 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2015, 7:54 PM CDT (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2015, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 96 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Chase County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 4 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
- 938 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 314 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 10.8
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 11, 7:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Greeley and 10 more | 95 min |
| Jun 11, 9:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant and 12 more | 87 min |
| Jun 11, 11:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Ford, Grant, Haskell and 6 more | 65 min |
| Jun 12, 3:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette | 83 min |
| Jun 11, 8:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Knox, Lewis, Scotland | 92 min |
| Jun 11, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Knox, Lewis, Marion, Monroe, Pike and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 10:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Clark, Clay and 18 more | 90 min |
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.