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Mesoscale Discussion 1733
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Dec 27, 2018, 2:16 AM CST for 27 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Nebraska; Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 27, 2018, 2:16 AM CST (08:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 27, 2018, 8:15 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Webster County, NE, Texas County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:19 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 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 712 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 26, 7:13 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Choctaw and 18 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.