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Mesoscale Discussion 1576
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 23, 2016, 3:10 PM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 95 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2016, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2016, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 95 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 30 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Major County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1470 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jackson and 10 more | 90 min |
| Aug 23, 6:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Butler, Comanche, Cowley, Harper, Kingman and 5 more | 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.