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Mesoscale Discussion 828
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 22, 2018, 4:14 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2018, 4:14 PM MDT (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2018, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 58 counties
Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Harper County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 84 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, 2:46 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Prowers | 89 min |
| 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 |
| Jun 22, 1:52 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 83 min |
| Jun 22, 2:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 9 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.