Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2016
Mesoscale Discussion 1160
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 6, 2016, 1:50 AM CDT for 39 counties in Kansas; Barton County, Jasper County, Missouri; 8 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 85 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2016, 1:50 AM CDT (06:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2016, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 49 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Alfalfa County, OK, Craig County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:50 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 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 5225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1379 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 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, 7:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove and 17 more | 119 min |
| Jul 5, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 23 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 5, 11:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Clark, Cloud, Comanche and 36 more | 115 min |
| Jul 6, 2:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Edwards, Harper, Hodgeman, Kingman and 7 more | 58 min |
| Jul 6, 3:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 54 min |
| Jul 6, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 6, 1:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Scotland | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark | 116 min |
| Jul 6, 5:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Christian, Dade, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 10:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Iron and 11 more | 58 min |
| Jul 6, 10:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent and 19 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 6, 12:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent and 18 more | 67 min |
| Jul 6, 4:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Harmon, Roger Mills | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.