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Mesoscale Discussion 472
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 28, 2019, 11:35 PM CDT for 26 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 85 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2019, 11:35 PM CDT (04:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2019, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:37 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 nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 442 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -299 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 432 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 28, 8:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Lane and 11 more | 90 min |
| Apr 28, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 30 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 29, 2:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Elk, Franklin and 10 more | 54 min |
| Apr 29, 4:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Coffey, Crawford and 9 more | 90 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale 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.