Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2016

Mesoscale Discussion 715

May 24, 201621 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Ellis County, Harper County, Oklahoma; 6 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2016, 8:26 PM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Ellis County, Harper County, Oklahoma; 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 2016, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2016, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Gray County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:30 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 nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 290 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2245 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 149 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
2245 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1930 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
16.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 7:09 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas6 hr
May 24, 7:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Ellsworth, Harper, Kingman, Reno, Rice30 min
May 24, 7:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarton, Butler, Cloud, Cowley, Dickinson, Ellsworth and 19 more6 hr
May 24, 9:49 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Barton, Bourbon and 55 more86 min
May 24, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay and 24 more6 hr
May 24, 11:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEdwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Rush, Stafford113 min
May 25, 2:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Chase, Cowley, Dickinson, Elk, Greenwood and 7 more118 min
May 25, 3:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cloud and 25 more9 hr
May 24, 8:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Muskogee and 2 more96 min
May 24, 9:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCoal, Creek, Garfield, Hughes, Kay, Lincoln and 13 more2 hr
May 25, 1:13 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Atoka, Cherokee, Coal, Creek, Haskell and 14 more3 hr
May 25, 3:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColeman, Concho, Edwards, Kimble, Kinney, McCulloch and 8 more3 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.