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Mesoscale Discussion 756

May 26, 20168 counties in Kansas; 6 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 26, 2016, 9:17 PM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas; 6 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2016, 9:17 PM CDT (02:17 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2016, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Ellis County, KS, Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Trego County, KS, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:18 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2515 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 26, 8:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Barber, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Comanche and 20 more	53 min
May 26, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cowley, Dickinson and 17 more	4 hr
May 27, 1:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 15 more	88 min
May 27, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 45 more	7 hr
May 27, 5:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Lane, Ness, Pawnee, Rush, Scott, Wichita	90 min
May 27, 5:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Geary and 8 more	92 min
May 27, 5:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Doniphan	64 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016 Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.