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Mesoscale Discussion 799
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 19, 2018, 8:33 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 2018, 8:33 PM MDT (02:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2018, 10:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 57 counties
Prowers County, CO, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Beaver County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:34 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 2016 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1695 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 6:21 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Broomfield, Cheyenne and 20 more | 54 min |
| Jun 19, 7:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero, Prowers and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 19, 10:41 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 2 hr |
| Jun 19, 9:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Chase, Clark, Comanche, Dickinson and 26 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 19, 6:40 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Ellis, Roger Mills, Texas | 2 hr |
| Jun 20, 1:12 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Ellis, Roger Mills | 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.