Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2017
Mesoscale Discussion 318
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 24, 2017, 2:00 PM CDT for 22 counties in Kansas; 6 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 2017, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2017, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 28 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Craig County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 2129 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 367 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 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 23, 9:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley and 13 more | 59 min |
| Mar 24, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Dickinson, Elk and 9 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 24, 3:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, LeFlore, McCurtain, Sequoyah | 95 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.