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Mesoscale Discussion 898
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 26, 2018, 7:30 PM CDT for 25 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Missouri; Ottawa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2018, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2018, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 34 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Newton County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Ottawa County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:29 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 nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 925 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
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, 7:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Ripley and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 1:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Scott and 1 more | 93 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.