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Mesoscale Discussion 572
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 9, 2016, 5:29 PM CDT for 54 counties in Kansas; 41 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 2016, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2016, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 95 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Barber 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, 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, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson 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, Pratt 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, Adair County, OK, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McClain County, OK, McIntosh 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, Pottawatomie County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Woods County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 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
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 8, 7:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Ottawa, Republic, Washington | 117 min |
| May 8, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Ottawa, Republic, Washington | 3 hr |
| May 8, 11:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Ellis, Ellsworth, Jewell, Lincoln and 10 more | 88 min |
| May 8, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Ellis, Ellsworth, Jewell, Lincoln and 9 more | 4 hr |
| May 9, 3:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary and 23 more | 115 min |
| May 9, 1:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 53 more | 59 min |
| May 9, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 41 more | 10 hr |
| May 8, 7:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton and 16 more | 89 min |
| May 9, 2:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Jefferson, Johnston, Love and 4 more | 3 hr |
| May 9, 1:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell and 14 more | 66 min |
| May 9, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland, Coal and 28 more | 7 hr |
| May 9, 5:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Hughes and 12 more | 56 min |
Nearby
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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.