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Mesoscale Discussion 1716
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 14, 2017, 7:32 PM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 14, 2017, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2017, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 905 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.7
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 14, 9:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Callaway, Camden, Cole, Gasconade, Hickory, Lincoln and 9 more | 86 min |
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.