Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2016
Mesoscale Discussion 1430
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 28, 2016, 8:16 PM CDT for 29 counties in Kansas; 6 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 89 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 2016, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2016, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Craig County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 559 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
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 28, 8:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton and 2 more | 59 min |
| Jul 28, 11:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greeley, Hamilton | 2 hr |
| Jul 29, 4:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Creek, Custer and 17 more | 90 min |
| Jul 29, 12:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | LeFlore | 2 hr |
| Jul 29, 3:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.