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Mesoscale Discussion 1271
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 14, 2016, 6:25 AM CDT for 46 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2016, 6:25 AM CDT (11:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2016, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 46 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, Clark County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:26 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 1278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2433 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted.
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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.