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Mesoscale Discussion 1714
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 17, 2016, 7:57 PM CDT for 16 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Oklahoma; 22 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 17, 2016, 7:57 PM CDT (00:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2016, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties
Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 1905 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1075 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.7
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 17, 8:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 67 min |
| Sep 17, 7:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Glasscock and 6 more | 85 min |
| Sep 17, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crane, Ector, Glasscock, Loving, Midland, Pecos and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 17, 10:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill and 3 more | 58 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.