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Mesoscale Discussion 541
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 5, 2019, 2:26 PM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2019, 2:26 PM CDT (19:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2019, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 21 counties
Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Ness County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -333 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1895 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 6 hr |
| May 5, 3:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Russell and 1 more | 2 hr |
| May 5, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 27 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 5:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jewell, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic, Washington | 89 min |
| May 5, 5:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harper, Kingman, Sumner | 60 min |
| May 5, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, McPherson and 4 more | 7 hr |
| May 5, 6:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 19 more | 87 min |
| May 5, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 12 more | 5 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.