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Mesoscale Discussion 1192

June 22, 201940 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 22, 2019, 2:51 AM CDT for 40 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 84 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 2019, 2:51 AM CDT (07:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2019, 4:15 AM CDT
In force
84 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties

Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osage County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:53 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 (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 195 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2019-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3112 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2019-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 424 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
3112 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-255 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
832 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
424 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
623 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
41.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Geary, Jackson and 10 more7 hr
Jun 21, 7:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 12 more118 min
Jun 21, 9:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGreeley, Logan, Sherman, Wallace, Wichita95 min
Jun 21, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 48 more8 hr
Jun 21, 11:33 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCWyandotte87 min
Jun 22, 4:32 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 40 more88 min
Jun 22, 1:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Barton, Bourbon and 48 more2 hr
Jun 22, 2:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler and 46 more7 hr
Jun 22, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCGreeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan, Morton, Sherman and 4 more5 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2019Every 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.