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Mesoscale Discussion 676
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 22, 2016, 1:39 PM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 29 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2016, 1:39 PM CDT (18:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2016, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 95%
All 39 counties
Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 1488 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1139 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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, 9:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gove, Logan, Scott, Thomas, Wallace, Wichita | 58 min |
| May 22, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny, Meade and 2 more | 9 hr |
| May 22, 5:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace and 1 more | 2 hr |
| May 22, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ford, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 9:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Carson, Castro, Cochran, Dallam and 17 more | 61 min |
| May 22, 12:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Armstrong, Bailey, Carson, Castro, Cochran and 21 more | 2 hr |
| May 22, 6:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coke, Crockett, Glasscock, Irion, Reagan, Schleicher and 5 more | 2 hr |
| May 22, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coke, Crockett, Glasscock, Irion, Midland, Pecos and 7 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.