Alert archive / Nebraska / Mesoscale Discussions in 2017
Mesoscale Discussion 840
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 25, 2017, 12:35 PM MDT for 8 counties in Colorado; 15 counties in Kansas; 26 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2017, 12:35 PM MDT (18:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2017, 2:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 49 counties
Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Arthur County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Garden County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Grant County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Keith County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 1601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 358 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 1:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Phillips, Washington, Yuma | 7 hr |
| May 25, 4:23 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Finney, Gove, Graham and 20 more | 67 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.