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Mesoscale Discussion 370
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 17, 2019, 5:11 PM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas; 35 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 94 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 17, 2019, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2019, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 95%
All 45 counties
Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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 (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -428 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1001 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 2:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Comanche, Cowley and 9 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 22 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 17, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte | 7 hr |
| Apr 17, 6:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua and 16 more | 97 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.