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Mesoscale Discussion 1603
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 27, 2016, 2:27 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 93 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 2016, 2:27 PM MDT (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2016, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 31 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Logan County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 205 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -281 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1206 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 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 26, 7:12 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Lane, Logan and 13 more | 63 min |
| Aug 26, 8:35 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Johnson, Wyandotte | 55 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.