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Mesoscale Discussion 1076
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 18, 2018, 3:56 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Crawford County, Labette County, Kansas; 8 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 2018, 3:56 PM CDT (20:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2018, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 5%
Counties Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Labette County, KS, Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Polk County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 798 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 861 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 8:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Greeley and 14 more | 118 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2018Every mesoscale discussion in 2018
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.