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Mesoscale Discussion 1466
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 10, 2017, 2:05 PM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 2017, 2:05 PM CDT (19:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2017, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch possible
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 21 counties
Barton County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Smith County, KS, Trego County, KS
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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 520 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1117 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Harper | 84 min |
| Aug 10, 1:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harper, Sumner | 2 hr |
| Aug 10, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Harper, Sumner | 7 hr |
| Aug 10, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 38 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 10, 3:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 5 more | 115 min |
| Aug 10, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 10, 4:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Edwards, Ellsworth, Harvey, Kingman, Kiowa and 11 more | 97 min |
| Aug 10, 6:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Comanche | 91 min |
Nearby
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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.