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Mesoscale Discussion 1763
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 5, 2016, 8:06 PM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas; 17 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 5, 2016, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 2016, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 5%
All 29 counties
Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Miami County, KS, Osage County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Platte County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:07 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 841 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 825 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 392 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 7.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 11:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 4 more | 117 min |
| Oct 6, 11:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Marshall, Mitchell and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 6, 1:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase and 34 more | 113 min |
| Oct 6, 2:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 41 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 6, 5:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Dickinson, Elk and 13 more | 93 min |
| Oct 6, 6:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon | 83 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.