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Mesoscale Discussion 1633
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 4, 2016, 1:54 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado; 25 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 4, 2016, 1:54 PM MDT (19:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 2016, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 26 counties
Cheyenne County, CO, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 392 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 797 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 395 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 424 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 7:47 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kit Carson, Yuma | 118 min |
| 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, 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 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.