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Mesoscale Discussion 664
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 21, 2016, 2:25 PM CDT for 16 counties in Kansas; Texas County, Oklahoma; 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 95 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 21, 2016, 2:25 PM CDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2016, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 95 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 32 counties
Cheyenne County, KS, Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Logan County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Texas County, OK, Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 182 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 493 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 543 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 433 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 700 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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 21, 3:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley and 17 more | 8 hr |
| May 21, 5:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley and 17 more | 116 min |
| May 21, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 7 hr |
| May 21, 6:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 2 hr |
| May 21, 11:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 10 more | 85 min |
| May 21, 2:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Loving, Presidio, Reeves | 85 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.