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Mesoscale Discussion 1103
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 20, 2017, 5:18 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado; 32 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 2017, 5:18 PM MDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2017, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties
Baca County, CO, Barton County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morton 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, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 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
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 20, 11:59 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 20, 12:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Edwards, Ellis and 37 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 20, 2:40 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Ford and 20 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.