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Mesoscale Discussion 1042
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 23, 2016, 10:35 PM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado; 21 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 85 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 2016, 10:35 PM MDT (04:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2016, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:38 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 876 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1501 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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, 6:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 23, 8:29 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Phillips and 4 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2016Every mesoscale discussion in 2016
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.