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Mesoscale Discussion 549
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 5, 2019, 7:17 PM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2019, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2019, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Harper County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2431 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 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, 9:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 14 more | 57 min |
| May 5, 9:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Elk, Montgomery, Wilson | 56 min |
| May 5, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood, Montgomery, Wilson | 6 hr |
| May 6, 1:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Republic and 2 more | 119 min |
| May 6, 3:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Finney, Hodgeman, Lane and 7 more | 88 min |
| May 6, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Dickinson, Doniphan, Geary and 14 more | 5 hr |
| May 6, 5:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Coffey and 24 more | 97 min |
| May 6, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Butler, Chase, Coffey and 22 more | 7 hr |
| May 6, 5:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 9 more | 87 min |
| May 6, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 19 more | 6 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.