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Mesoscale Discussion 1154

June 26, 201714 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 26, 2017, 3:48 PM CDT for 14 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 87 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 2017, 3:48 PM CDT (20:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2017, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 87 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 20%

Counties Allen County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Labette County, KS, Marion County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Dade County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2264 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 2:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Cheyenne, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson and 29 more	87 min
Jun 26, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barton, Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove and 23 more	6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2017 Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2017 Every 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.