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Mesoscale Discussion 1074

June 28, 201610 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 28, 2016, 3:10 PM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 2016, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2016, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 40%

Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Harper County, OK, Major County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 306Jun 28, 4:45 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 1570 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1309 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 4:39 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butler, Chase, Dickinson, Geary, Harvey, McPherson and 3 more	2 hr
Jun 28, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 22 more	5 hr
Jun 28, 5:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Major, Roger Mills and 1 more	63 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2016 Every 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.