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Mesoscale Discussion 315

May 2, 20185 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 2, 2018, 2:47 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 118 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 2, 2018, 2:47 PM CDT (19:47 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2018, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 118 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Edwards County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Rice County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 115 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2321 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 7:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson and 25 more	2 hr
May 1, 9:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay and 33 more	54 min
May 2, 11:36 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Chase, Clark, Comanche, Dickinson, Edwards and 15 more	2 hr
May 2, 12:43 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase and 51 more	9 hr
May 2, 5:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Marshall and 1 more	97 min
May 2, 5:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Barber, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay and 28 more	87 min
May 2, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more	8 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2018 Every 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.