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Mesoscale Discussion 1628
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 3, 2016, 7:47 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; 15 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 118 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 3, 2016, 7:47 PM MDT (01:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2016, 9:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:47 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 1410 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1088 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 9:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Yuma | 117 min |
| Sep 4, 1:46 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 119 min |
| Sep 4, 1:54 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne | 2 hr |
| Sep 4, 2:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 4, 5:07 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kit Carson, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 113 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.