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Mesoscale Discussion 1030
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 23, 2016, 12:40 PM CDT for 29 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 2016, 12:40 PM CDT (17:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2016, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 29 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:44 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 6:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 17 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
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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.