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Mesoscale Discussion 43
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 14, 2017, 9:30 AM CST for 8 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Oklahoma; 17 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 14, 2017, 9:30 AM CST (15:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 14, 2017, 1:30 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties
Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Ford County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:27 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 745 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 1:24 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 13, 10:05 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 14, 5:41 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Logan, Ottawa, Pawnee, Payne, Rogers | 3 hr |
| Jan 14, 3:34 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | El Paso, Hudspeth | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2017Mesoscale 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.