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Mesoscale Discussion 1039
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 15, 2017, 12:49 PM CDT for 43 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2017, 12:49 PM CDT (17:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2017, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 95%
All 43 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:52 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 3017 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1284 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 9:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson, Johnson and 6 more | 96 min |
| Jun 15, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase and 58 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 55 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 5:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler and 54 more | 62 min |
| Jun 15, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan | 6 hr |
Nearby
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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.