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Mesoscale Discussion 2011

September 24, 201923 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 24, 2019, 6:30 PM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 90 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 24, 2019, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired
Sep 24, 2019, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
90 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Harper 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, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2019-09-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 619 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2019-09-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 83 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 24, 2:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Clark, Comanche, Dickinson, Edwards, Ellsworth and 22 more88 min
Sep 24, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth and 17 more7 hr
Sep 24, 5:30 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Lincoln, Marshall and 9 more60 min
Sep 24, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and 10 more6 hr

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.