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Mesoscale Discussion 559
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 28, 2018, 6:10 PM CDT for 16 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 95 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 2018, 6:10 PM CDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2018, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 95 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Clark County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 1181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -256 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1646 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 1:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gove, Graham, Logan, Phillips, Rooks, Sheridan and 4 more | 59 min |
| May 28, 2:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 19 more | 8 hr |
| May 28, 2:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny, Meade, Morton and 3 more | 84 min |
| May 28, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 11 more | 10 hr |
| May 28, 5:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan, Phillips and 9 more | 96 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.