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Mesoscale Discussion 1849
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 24, 2019, 8:39 PM CDT for 51 counties in Kansas; 6 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2019, 8:39 PM CDT (01:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2019, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 57 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth 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, Jewell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:43 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 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1409 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 11:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Clark, Cloud, Comanche and 41 more | 116 min |
| Aug 24, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Comanche and 24 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 25, 1:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Comanche and 24 more | 88 min |
| Aug 25, 3:20 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley and 13 more | 55 min |
| Aug 25, 4:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards, Elk and 10 more | 65 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.