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Mesoscale Discussion 1397
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 22, 2017, 3:13 PM CDT for 30 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2017, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2017, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 39 counties
Atchison County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -395 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 476 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 5:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Coffey, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 22, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Douglas, Geary, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson and 9 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.