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Mesoscale Discussion 560
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 8, 2016, 6:33 PM CDT for 47 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 87 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2016, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 51 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osage County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Trego County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 2934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 9:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Gray, Kearny and 8 more | 86 min |
| May 8, 1:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Harper | 117 min |
| May 8, 3:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Edwards and 34 more | 54 min |
| May 8, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 38 more | 8 hr |
| May 8, 4:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Blaine, Boone, Buffalo, Butler, Clay and 22 more | 90 min |
| May 8, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Blaine, Brown, Buffalo, Cherry, Clay and 26 more | 7 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.