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Mesoscale Discussion 1193

July 7, 2016Phillips County, Sedgwick County, Colorado; 7 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 7, 2016, 4:14 PM MDT for Phillips County, Sedgwick County, Colorado; 7 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 7, 2016, 4:14 PM MDT (22:14 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2016, 6:45 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 20%

Counties Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 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.

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: 702 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -408 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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
Jul 7, 1:40 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld and 1 more	2 hr
Jul 6, 8:28 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Norton	2 hr
Jul 6, 8:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	5 hr
Jul 7, 12:22 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jackson and 11 more	83 min
Jul 7, 12:37 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Douglas and 15 more	6 hr
Jul 7, 1:31 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Phillips, Republic, Smith	89 min
Jul 7, 3:27 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson and 13 more	93 min
Jul 7, 4:26 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Franklin, Johnson, Linn, Miami, Osage	2 hr
Jul 6, 6:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Antelope, Boone, Burt, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 11 more	6 hr
Jul 7, 12:50 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Burt, Colfax, Cuming, Dodge, Douglas, Sarpy and 3 more	115 min
Jul 7, 2:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Burt, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota and 11 more	5 hr
Jul 7, 5:30 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cass, Otoe, Sarpy	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2016 Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016 Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.