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Mesoscale Discussion 711

May 24, 201617 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma; 12 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2016, 6:14 PM CDT for 17 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma; 12 counties in Texas. It was in force for 91 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 2016, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2016, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
91 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties

Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Seward County, KS, Trego County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 57 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 2016-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2293 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 2016-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 251 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2293 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-201 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
862 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
251 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
238 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 23, 11:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark83 min
May 23, 11:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Butler, Cloud, Dickinson, Edwards, Ellis and 31 more114 min
May 24, 12:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 36 more7 hr
May 24, 3:08 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Graham, Lincoln, Mitchell, Norton and 4 more67 min
May 24, 2:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Comanche, Finney, Ford, Gray, Haskell and 7 more119 min
May 24, 3:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more9 hr
May 24, 6:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace89 min
May 23, 8:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Harmon and 5 more92 min
May 23, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeckham, Custer, Ellis, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 4 more5 hr
May 24, 1:25 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGarfield, Kay, Kingfisher, Logan, Major, Noble and 3 more2 hr
May 24, 4:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee, Creek, Haskell, Latimer, Lincoln, McIntosh and 8 more63 min
May 24, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Coal, Creek, Haskell, Hughes, Latimer and 16 more7 hr

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.