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Mesoscale Discussion 1139

June 19, 201913 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Oklahoma; Lipscomb County, Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 19, 2019, 4:36 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Oklahoma; Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 114 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 19, 2019, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2019, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 114 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 20%

Counties Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Trego County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Lipscomb County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 404Jun 19, 5:50 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 51 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -236 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1061 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 7:09 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk and 8 more	2 hr
Jun 18, 7:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Grant, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stanton and 1 more	63 min
Jun 19, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt	4 hr
Jun 18, 8:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 28 more	2 hr
Jun 18, 8:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Nowata, Osage, Washington	93 min
Jun 18, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 32 more	6 hr
Jun 19, 12:45 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 18 more	60 min
Jun 19, 1:25 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Hughes, Johnston and 8 more	65 min
Jun 19, 1:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Hughes and 13 more	3 hr
Jun 19, 3:08 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Hughes and 7 more	67 min
Jun 19, 3:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bryan, Choctaw, Love, McCurtain, Marshall	3 hr
Jun 19, 3:58 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bryan, Choctaw, Love, McCurtain, Marshall	8 hr
Jun 19, 6:10 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherokee, Harrison, Marion, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk and 2 more	95 min
Jun 19, 4:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Coke, Fisher, Howard, Jones, Kent and 6 more	36 min
Jun 19, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Borden, Coke, Concho, Crockett, Fisher, Glasscock and 18 more	6 hr
Jun 19, 5:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hopkins, Hunt	60 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2019 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2019 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2019 Every mesoscale discussion in 2019

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.