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Mesoscale Discussion 51
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 15, 2017, 9:43 AM CST for 34 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Harper County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 15, 2017, 9:43 AM CST (15:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 15, 2017, 1:45 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:43 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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 503 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 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, 9:35 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Ford, Harper, Kingman and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 15, 1:55 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 15, 2:02 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 15, 9:02 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 15, 1:59 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Brown, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan and 45 more | 5 hr |
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.