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Mesoscale Discussion 1766
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 6, 2016, 1:22 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 113 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 6, 2016, 1:22 PM CDT (18:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 2016, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 95%
All 67 counties
Adair County, IA, Adams County, IA, Cass County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Dallas County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Fremont County, IA, Madison County, IA, Mills County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Union County, IA, Warren County, IA, Atchison County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Worth County, MO, Gage County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 1009 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
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 6, 11:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cass, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 2 hr |
| Oct 6, 2:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Cass, Clarke, Decatur, Fremont and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 5, 8:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Greenwood, Jefferson and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 5, 11:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 4 more | 117 min |
| 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 Kansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.