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Mesoscale Discussion 726

May 25, 201613 counties in Kansas; Kay County, Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 25, 2016, 2:47 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; Kay County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 118 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2016, 2:47 PM CDT (19:47 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2016, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 118 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 60%

Counties Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Kay County, OK

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 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.

Tornado Watch 210May 25, 3:45 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1802 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 289 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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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, 9:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Barton, Bourbon and 55 more	86 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, 3:44 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cloud and 25 more	9 hr
May 24, 8:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Muskogee and 2 more	96 min
May 24, 9:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coal, Creek, Garfield, Hughes, Kay, Lincoln and 13 more	2 hr
May 25, 1:13 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Atoka, Cherokee, Coal, Creek, Haskell and 14 more	3 hr

Nearby

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