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Mesoscale Discussion 558

May 6, 201913 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 6, 2019, 3:47 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 88 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 6, 2019, 3:47 PM CDT (20:47 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2019, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 88 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 40%

Counties Barton County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Lane County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 111 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 377 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -274 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1026 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 7:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford and 15 more	58 min
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, 3:49 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.