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Mesoscale Discussion 1090
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 19, 2018, 5:42 PM CDT for 16 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 2018, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2018, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 21 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Harper County, OK, Major County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 859 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2006 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 18, 9:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Marshall, Mitchell and 6 more | 114 min |
| Jul 19, 12:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Marshall, Nemaha, Washington | 118 min |
| Jul 19, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 19, 3:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Geary, Jackson, Jefferson and 7 more | 53 min |
| Jul 19, 11:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 38 more | 113 min |
| Jul 19, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barton, Bourbon, Chase and 43 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 19, 2:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Douglas, Franklin, Geary, Jackson, Jefferson and 10 more | 92 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.