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Mesoscale Discussion 1642
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 5, 2016, 2:30 PM MDT for 6 states. It was in force for 90 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 5, 2016, 2:30 PM MDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2016, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 43 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Morton County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Dallam County, TX
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 286 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
- 53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -289 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1293 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 7:57 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan and 4 more | 93 min |
| Sep 5, 5:06 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Rawlins | 84 min |
| Sep 4, 6:50 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Buffalo, Custer, Dawson, Logan, Loup and 2 more | 115 min |
| Sep 4, 9:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Cedar, Custer and 10 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 5, 12:10 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dakota, Dixon, Thurston | 2 hr |
| Sep 5, 2:08 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Boyd, Garfield, Holt, Knox, Loup and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 5, 5:09 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Box Butte, Dawes, Garden, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 3 hr |
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.