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Mesoscale Discussion 1672
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Nov 30, 2018, 9:12 PM CST for 11 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 30, 2018, 9:12 PM CST (03:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 30, 2018, 11:15 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 23 counties
Allen County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:11 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 687 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 9:47 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 30, 11:20 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Neosho | 85 min |
| Dec 1, 12:58 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Christian, Douglas, Greene, Howell, Oregon and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Dec 1, 3:25 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 2 hr |
| Dec 1, 1:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Pike, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 117 min |
| Dec 1, 2:16 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lincoln, Pike | 7 hr |
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.