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Mesoscale Discussion 1259

July 12, 201620 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 12, 2016, 8:27 PM CDT for 20 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 12, 2016, 8:27 PM CDT (01:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 2016, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 20%

Counties Anderson County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Woodson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:29 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 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 239 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: 1850 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1690 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -1.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 13, 2:33 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Lane, Logan and 7 more	117 min
Jul 13, 3:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barton, Cheyenne, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 28 more	7 hr
Jul 13, 6:40 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chase, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas, Ellsworth, Franklin and 12 more	95 min
Jul 13, 8:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chase and 25 more	5 hr
Jul 13, 6:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 9 more	3 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.