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Mesoscale Discussion 1428
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 28, 2016, 6:14 PM CDT for 41 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 2016, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2016, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 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 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1923 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 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 27, 11:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Finney, Gove, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny and 9 more | 119 min |
| Jul 28, 1:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Ellis, Graham, Lincoln, Mitchell, Norton and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 28, 3:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cowley, Harper, Sumner | 115 min |
| Jul 28, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cloud and 45 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
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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.