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Mesoscale Discussion 568

May 9, 20164 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 9, 2016, 1:46 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 9, 2016, 1:46 PM CDT (18:46 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 2016, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
95%
All 101 counties

Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Holt County, MO, Platte County, MO, Fillmore County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Adair County, OK, Alfalfa County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2016-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 570 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2016-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 129 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
570 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
799 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
258 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
4.5

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 7:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Ottawa, Republic, Washington117 min
May 8, 9:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClay, Cloud, Ottawa, Republic, Washington3 hr
May 8, 11:17 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Ellis, Ellsworth, Jewell, Lincoln and 10 more88 min
May 8, 11:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClay, Cloud, Ellis, Ellsworth, Jewell, Lincoln and 9 more4 hr
May 9, 3:35 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary and 23 more115 min
May 9, 2:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 41 more10 hr
May 9, 5:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Bourbon, Brown and 48 more61 min
May 9, 4:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison53 min
May 9, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtchison, Holt, Nodaway6 hr
May 9, 6:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBollinger, Butler, Carter, Dunklin, Howell, Madison and 6 more97 min
May 9, 2:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoyd, Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Knox, Pierce and 2 more94 min
May 8, 7:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton and 16 more89 min
May 9, 2:39 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarter, Comanche, Cotton, Jefferson, Johnston, Love and 4 more3 hr
May 9, 1:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell and 14 more66 min
May 9, 2:36 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland, Coal and 28 more7 hr
May 9, 5:49 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Hughes and 12 more56 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.