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Mesoscale Discussion 1773
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 6, 2016, 7:42 PM CDT for 9 counties in Iowa; 22 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 93 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 6, 2016, 7:42 PM CDT (00:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 2016, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties
Adams County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Union County, IA, Warren County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Worth County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 1400 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 990 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 11.3
The text
As transmitted.
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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.