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Mesoscale Discussion 314

March 23, 201713 counties in Kansas; Texas County, Oklahoma; 5 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 23, 2017, 6:32 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; Texas County, Oklahoma; 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 23, 2017, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 2017, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS, Texas County, OK, Hansford County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Potter County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -900 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1151 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 453 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 389 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 23, 3:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 5 more	58 min
Mar 23, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 7 more	6 hr
Mar 23, 3:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Decatur, Norton	2 hr
Mar 23, 6:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton, Phillips and 5 more	30 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2017 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2017 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2017 Every 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.