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Mesoscale Discussion 85

February 21, 201819 counties in Kansas; Alfalfa County, Grant County, Woods County, Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 21, 2018, 7:02 PM CST for 19 counties in Kansas; Alfalfa County, Grant County, Woods County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Feb 21, 2018, 7:02 PM CST (01:02 UTC)
Expired
Feb 21, 2018, 11:00 PM CST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties

Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Grant County, OK, Woods County, OK

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:04 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 text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 22, 6:11 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarter, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady, Jackson and 9 more3 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.