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Mesoscale Discussion 2015

September 24, 201925 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 24, 2019, 8:36 PM CDT for 25 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 84 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 24, 2019, 8:36 PM CDT (01:36 UTC)
Expired
Sep 24, 2019, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
84 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties

Barber County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Washington County, KS, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Saline County, NE

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 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 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 201 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 00:00Z on 2019-09-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 888 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 00:00Z on 2019-09-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 238 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
888 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1802 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
238 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
255 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

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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.