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Mesoscale Discussion 437
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 24, 2016, 1:50 PM CDT for 25 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 2016, 1:50 PM CDT (18:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2016, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 34 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Washington County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Major County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 77 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -338 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1300 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 412 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 419 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 9:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Scott, Sherman and 3 more | 92 min |
| Apr 24, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith | 8 hr |
| Apr 24, 3:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay and 39 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 24, 5:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 42 more | 55 min |
| Apr 24, 6:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Jewell, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic, Washington | 65 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.