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Mesoscale Discussion 1117
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 2, 2016, 6:03 PM CDT for 31 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Oklahoma; Hansford County, Lipscomb County, Ochiltree County, Texas. It was in force for 87 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 2016, 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2016, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morris County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Hansford County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 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 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -294 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 817 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 299 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 391 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 8:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell and 9 more | 117 min |
| Jul 1, 11:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 14 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 12:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 41 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 2, 6:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Jackson, Tillman | 95 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.