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Mesoscale Discussion 719
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2016, 9:49 PM CDT for 61 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Missouri; 6 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 86 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2016, 9:49 PM CDT (02:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2016, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 76 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Platte County, MO, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Thayer County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:52 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 1524 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1159 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
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 24, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 6 hr |
| May 24, 7:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Ellsworth, Harper, Kingman, Reno, Rice | 30 min |
| May 24, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Cloud, Cowley, Dickinson, Ellsworth and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 8:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 15 more | 64 min |
| May 24, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay and 24 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 11:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Rush, Stafford | 113 min |
| May 25, 2:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Cowley, Dickinson, Elk, Greenwood and 7 more | 118 min |
| May 25, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cloud and 25 more | 9 hr |
| May 24, 9:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherry, Sheridan | 58 min |
| May 24, 10:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Custer, Dawson, Franklin, Frontier and 15 more | 92 min |
| May 24, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Blaine, Buffalo, Custer, Dawson, Franklin and 17 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 11:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Dundy, Hayes, Hitchcock, Lincoln | 64 min |
| May 25, 3:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Chase, Dawson, Franklin, Frontier and 8 more | 57 min |
| May 25, 2:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry and 16 more | 53 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.