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Mesoscale Discussion 796
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 19, 2018, 6:12 PM CDT for 31 counties in Kansas; 30 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 2018, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2018, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 61 counties
Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Butler County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gage County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Saline County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 1363 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1110 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 3:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gove and 33 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 19, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Cloud, Decatur, Ellis, Finney, Ford and 38 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 18, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banner, Cheyenne, Kimball, Scotts Bluff | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 9:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff | 119 min |
| Jun 19, 5:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Chase, Deuel, Dundy, Frontier, Hayes and 6 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.