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Mesoscale Discussion 885
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 26, 2018, 8:01 AM CDT for 24 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 119 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2018, 8:01 AM CDT (13:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2018, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 24 counties
Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:05 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, 1.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1451 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1426 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
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 26, 8:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 26 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 26, 12:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Franklin and 5 more | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 12:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Crawford, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 26, 12:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Labette, Montgomery | 64 min |
| Jun 26, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee | 6 hr |
| Jun 26, 2:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Linn, Montgomery and 1 more | 89 min |
Nearby
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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.