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Mesoscale Discussion 594

May 10, 20164 counties in Kansas; 31 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 10, 2016, 9:13 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas; 31 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 92 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 2016, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2016, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 92 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 35 counties

Jewell County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Republic County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Boone County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Butler County, NE, Clay County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Madison County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Saline County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:15 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 135 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1798 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 11, 2:02 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 29 more	118 min
May 11, 3:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 33 more	5 hr
May 11, 5:34 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson and 12 more	101 min
May 11, 3:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Morton, Stanton, Stevens	119 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2016 Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016 Every 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.