Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2016
Mesoscale Discussion 1255
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 11, 2016, 10:56 PM CDT for 32 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 2016, 10:56 PM CDT (03:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 36 counties
Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:59 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 2533 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1388 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 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 11, 7:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Ellis, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell and 7 more | 65 min |
| Jul 12, 4:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Johnson, Leavenworth and 5 more | 59 min |
| Jul 12, 5:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny, Meade, Morton and 3 more | 94 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.