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Mesoscale Discussion 731
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 16, 2017, 2:03 PM CDT for 22 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 2017, 2:03 PM CDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2017, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 95%
All 22 counties
Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -432 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2110 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 2:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 20 more | 8 hr |
| May 16, 3:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cloud, Graham, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell, Norton and 7 more | 2 hr |
| May 16, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 23 more | 7 hr |
| May 16, 5:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 88 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.