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Mesoscale Discussion 1678
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 1, 2017, 2:39 PM CDT for 16 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 1, 2017, 2:39 PM CDT (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 1, 2017, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 95%
All 29 counties
Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 280 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 1, 6:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Logan and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 1, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Clay, Fillmore, Garfield and 18 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.