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Mesoscale Discussion 1072
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 17, 2017, 3:45 PM CDT for 43 counties in Kansas; 17 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 2017, 3:45 PM CDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2017, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 60 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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 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 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 828 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -321 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1179 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 388 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 536 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.3
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 16, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Clay, Coffey, Doniphan and 19 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 16, 9:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson and 14 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 11:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Clay, Coffey and 21 more | 91 min |
| Jun 17, 12:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Neosho, Woodson | 9 hr |
| Jun 17, 2:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Coffey, Crawford and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 5:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Neosho | 89 min |
| Jun 17, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Butler, Chase and 53 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 16, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Gasconade, Knox and 11 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 2:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Schuyler, Scotland | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Marion, Putnam and 3 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2017Every mesoscale discussion in 2017
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.