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Mesoscale Discussion 695

May 23, 201610 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma; 8 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 23, 2016, 2:18 PM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma; 8 counties in Texas. It was in force for 117 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 23, 2016, 2:18 PM CDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 2016, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
117 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
95%
All 27 counties

Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Seward County, KS, Beckham County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Donley County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 164 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2016-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1115 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2016-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1115 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-297 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
266 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 7:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHaskell, Meade, Seward, Stevens118 min
May 22, 9:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGray, Haskell, Meade, Seward65 min
May 22, 10:19 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Lane, Logan and 9 more86 min
May 23, 2:30 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGraham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne, Phillips and 3 more2 hr
May 23, 3:37 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 5 more8 hr
May 23, 6:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 5 more2 hr
May 22, 7:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCComanche, Greer, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman89 min
May 22, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCComanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Jefferson and 3 more5 hr
May 23, 1:36 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarter, Comanche, Cotton, Jefferson, Love, Marshall and 2 more84 min
May 23, 2:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCarter, Cotton, Jackson, Jefferson, Love, Marshall and 2 more5 hr
May 23, 4:58 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Jefferson, Love, Marshall and 1 more62 min
May 22, 9:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCIrion, Reagan85 min
May 23, 1:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBorden, Coke, Crockett, Crosby, Dawson, Garza and 15 more118 min
May 23, 2:32 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBorden, Brewster, Briscoe, Childress, Coke, Cottle and 37 more7 hr
May 23, 5:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBorden, Briscoe, Coke, Cottle, Crockett, Crosby and 30 more91 min

Nearby

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