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Mesoscale Discussion 572

May 29, 201823 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 29, 2018, 9:03 PM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 29, 2018, 9:03 PM CDT (02:03 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2018, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 30 counties

Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:06 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 text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 10:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk and 6 more	92 min
May 30, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Grant, Gray, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward and 2 more	7 hr
May 30, 5:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 12 more	3 hr
May 30, 6:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Grant, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stanton and 1 more	113 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2018 Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.