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Mesoscale Discussion 1147
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 5, 2016, 4:59 PM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas; 30 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2016, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2016, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 37 counties
Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Chase County, NE, Clay County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 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
- 715 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -352 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2406 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 5, 3:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Norton, Phillips, Sheridan | 61 min |
| Jul 5, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cloud, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton and 9 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Knox | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.