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Mesoscale Discussion 1985
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 19, 2019, 1:48 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 19, 2019, 1:48 PM MDT (19:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2019, 4:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 65 counties
Baca County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 1102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1421 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 4:38 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Norton, Phillips | 67 min |
| Sep 18, 9:28 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burt, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota and 14 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 19, 8:11 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Orange | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2019Mesoscale 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.