Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2019
Mesoscale Discussion 2007
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 24, 2019, 2:32 PM CDT for 28 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 24, 2019, 2:32 PM CDT (19:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2019, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 28 counties
Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 619 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1257 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 24, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth and 17 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 24, 5:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Lincoln, Marshall and 9 more | 60 min |
| Sep 24, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 24, 6:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth and 17 more | 90 min |
Nearby
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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.