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Mesoscale Discussion 51

January 15, 201734 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Harper County, Texas County, Oklahoma

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2017-01-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2017-01-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 160 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 14, 9:35 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Ford, Harper, Kingman and 3 more6 hr
Jan 15, 1:55 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 24 more6 hr
Jan 15, 2:02 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin and 10 more5 hr
Jan 15, 9:02 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson and 28 more5 hr
Jan 15, 1:59 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Brown, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan and 45 more5 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.