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Mesoscale Discussion 1099

June 20, 201722 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 20, 2017, 12:59 PM CDT for 22 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 2017, 12:59 PM CDT (17:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2017, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
60%
All 22 counties

Barton County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2017-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 698 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2017-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 171 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
698 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-190 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1238 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
158 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.7

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 1:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Edwards, Ellis and 37 more7 hr
Jun 20, 3:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Ford and 20 more2 hr
Jun 20, 6:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Gove and 26 more117 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.