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Mesoscale Discussion 196
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 13, 2019, 3:35 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; 17 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 85 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 2019, 3:35 PM CDT (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2019, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 30 counties
Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Washington County, KS, Adams County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Gage County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Polk County, NE, Saline County, NE, Seward County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 492 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 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 13, 4:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dawes | 4 hr |
| Mar 13, 7:20 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dawes, Sioux | 4 hr |
| Mar 13, 11:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Garden, Kimball and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 13, 6:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cherry, Cheyenne, Dawes and 10 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2019Mesoscale 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.