Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2018
Mesoscale Discussion 1156
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 25, 2018, 12:56 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado; 36 counties in Kansas; Furnas County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 2018, 12:56 PM MDT (18:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2018, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 41 counties
Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Barton County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Furnas County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 1847 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 12:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 7 more | 57 min |
| Jul 25, 1:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 25, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 25, 5:08 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver and 14 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 25, 4:01 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Garden, Grant, Hooker, McPherson, Sheridan | 119 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.