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Mesoscale Discussion 830

June 22, 201826 counties in Kansas; 28 counties in Oklahoma; 9 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 22, 2018, 7:12 PM CDT for 26 counties in Kansas; 28 counties in Oklahoma; 9 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 2018, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2018, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 63 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, McClain County, OK, Noble County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Payne County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 128 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2018-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 394 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2018-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
394 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1979 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
394 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
8.3

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 9:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Elk, Harper and 3 more113 min
Jun 23, 2:36 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFinney, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 9 more114 min
Jun 23, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCFinney, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell and 11 more7 hr
Jun 23, 6:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFinney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 13 more113 min
Jun 22, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland, Coal and 38 more6 hr
Jun 22, 11:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 44 more2 hr
Jun 22, 11:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, LeFlore, McCurtain, Mayes, Sequoyah7 hr
Jun 23, 1:01 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 44 more59 min
Jun 23, 2:17 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeckham, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 20 more118 min
Jun 23, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 24 more6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.