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Mesoscale Discussion 274
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 9, 2017, 10:02 AM CST for 7 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 2017, 10:02 AM CST (16:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2017, 11:30 AM CST
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 22 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Linn County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:05 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 11:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Linn | 10 hr |
| Mar 9, 1:04 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette and 5 more | 86 min |
| Mar 9, 4:45 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Carter, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid and 5 more | 90 min |
| Mar 9, 5:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Mississippi, New Madrid and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 9, 5:36 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Christian, Douglas, Greene, Howell, Jasper and 10 more | 84 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.