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Mesoscale Discussion 1667

September 9, 201610 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Harper County, Woods County, Oklahoma; Lipscomb County, Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 9, 2016, 3:39 PM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Harper County, Woods County, Oklahoma; Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 96 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 9, 2016, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
Expired
Sep 9, 2016, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
96 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
40%

Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Harper County, OK, Woods County, OK, Lipscomb County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 77 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2016-09-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1255 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2016-09-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 102 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1255 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-196 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1239 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 9, 6:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 23 more2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.