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Mesoscale Discussion 1552
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 9, 2018, 3:06 PM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas; 27 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 84 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 9, 2018, 3:06 PM CDT (20:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 9, 2018, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 84 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Dade County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ray County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 372 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 747 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 9:09 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Elk, Labette, Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Oct 9, 11:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Coffey, Crawford and 18 more | 89 min |
| Oct 9, 12:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 3 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 9, 1:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 8, 7:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrew, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb and 7 more | 57 min |
| Oct 9, 12:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Clark, Grundy, Knox, Mercer, Putnam and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 9, 6:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ozark, Taney | 83 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.