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Mesoscale Discussion 1907
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Dec 25, 2016, 3:27 PM CST for 5 states. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 25, 2016, 3:27 PM CST (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 25, 2016, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 5%
All 76 counties
Adams County, IA, Cass County, IA, Fremont County, IA, Mills County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Brown County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Worth County, MO, Cass County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Washington County, NE, Craig County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 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 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 266 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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, 12:49 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Cowley, Dickinson and 18 more | 116 min |
| Dec 25, 4:32 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Kimball, Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 6 hr |
| Dec 25, 2:36 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.