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Mesoscale Discussion 827
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 22, 2018, 2:46 PM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado; 21 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 89 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2018, 2:46 PM MDT (20:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2018, 4:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Baca County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Clark County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1793 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 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 22, 1:06 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca | 84 min |
| Jun 22, 11:31 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, Kiowa and 5 more | 89 min |
| Jun 22, 12:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 22, 4:14 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 2 hr |
| Jun 22, 3:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 22, 5:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Ellsworth, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Lincoln and 7 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.