Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2019
Mesoscale Discussion 2010
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 24, 2019, 5:30 PM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas; Atchison County, Missouri; 10 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 24, 2019, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2019, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 26 counties
Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Washington County, KS, Atchison County, MO, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Thayer County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 256 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 946 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 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 24, 2:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clark, Comanche, Dickinson, Edwards, Ellsworth and 22 more | 88 min |
| Sep 24, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth and 17 more | 7 hr |
| 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 |
| Sep 24, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt, Cass, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota, Dodge and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 24, 6:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burt, Cass, Douglas, Lancaster, Sarpy, Saunders and 1 more | 117 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.