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Mesoscale Discussion 1523

August 11, 201632 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Harper County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 11, 2016, 3:49 PM CDT for 32 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Harper County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 11, 2016, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
Expired: Aug 11, 2016, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 20%

All 39 counties

Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Washington County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK, Hansford County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 309 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -201 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2016 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.