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Mesoscale Discussion 1186
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 29, 2017, 3:12 PM CDT for 34 counties in Kansas; Bates County, Cass County, Vernon County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 2017, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2017, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 37 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 289 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
- 463 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 28, 11:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 67 min |
| Jun 29, 12:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis and 26 more | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Cheyenne, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson and 36 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 29, 4:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas, Franklin and 22 more | 53 min |
| Jun 29, 2:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greeley, Logan, Wallace | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gove, Graham, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 28, 8:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atchison, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Holt and 8 more | 96 min |
| Jun 29, 1:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Callaway, Camden, Cole, Crawford, Franklin and 17 more | 2 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.