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Mesoscale Discussion 1563
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 19, 2016, 1:36 PM CDT for 26 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 84 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 2016, 1:36 PM CDT (18:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2016, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 84 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 39 counties
Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Smith County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Fillmore County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Saline County, NE, Seward County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:38 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 1606 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 831 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Pratt and 4 more | 88 min |
| Aug 19, 5:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Dickinson and 22 more | 95 min |
| Aug 18, 9:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Cherry, Keya Paha | 84 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.