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Mesoscale Discussion 138
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 2, 2019, 9:59 PM CST for 41 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2019, 9:59 PM CST (03:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2019, 2:00 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:58 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
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 317 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 626 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 7:44 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greeley, Sherman, Wallace | 4 hr |
| Mar 3, 1:23 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay and 35 more | 4 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.