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Mesoscale Discussion 768

May 27, 20165 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 27, 2016, 5:41 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 2016, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2016, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
20%
All 75 counties

Adams County, IA, Appanoose County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Davis County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Fremont County, IA, Mills County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Union County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Adams County, IL, Brown County, IL, Calhoun County, IL, Greene County, IL, Jersey County, IL, Pike County, IL, Scott County, IL, Brown County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Audrain County, MO, Boone County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clark County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Howard County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Marion County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Pike County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saint Charles County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Shelby County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Warren County, MO, Worth County, MO, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Richardson County, NE

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 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

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 268 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2016-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2016-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -64 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1552 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 8:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Barber, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Comanche and 20 more53 min
May 26, 9:17 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEllis, Graham, Norton, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks and 2 more58 min
May 26, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCButler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cowley, Dickinson and 17 more4 hr
May 27, 1:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 15 more88 min
May 27, 2:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 45 more7 hr
May 27, 5:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLane, Ness, Pawnee, Rush, Scott, Wichita90 min
May 27, 5:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Geary and 8 more92 min
May 26, 9:43 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCallaway, Franklin, Gasconade, Montgomery, Osage, Warren92 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 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.