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Mesoscale Discussion 1905
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Dec 25, 2016, 12:49 PM CST for 24 counties in Kansas; Nuckolls County, Thayer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 25, 2016, 12:49 PM CST (18:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 25, 2016, 2:45 PM CST
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Washington County, KS, Nuckolls County, NE, Thayer County, NE
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 477 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 492 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 7:16 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Gove, Grant, Gray and 11 more | 89 min |
| Dec 25, 10:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 29 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 25, 3:27 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chautauqua and 25 more | 2 hr |
| Dec 25, 4:32 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Kimball, Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.