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Mesoscale Discussion 848

May 28, 201925 counties in Kansas; Alfalfa County, Woods County, Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 28, 2019, 9:39 AM CDT for 25 counties in Kansas; Alfalfa County, Woods County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 96 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 2019, 9:39 AM CDT (14:39 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2019, 11:15 AM CDT
In force
96 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
20%
All 27 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Woods County, OK

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:38 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 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 143 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2019-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 47 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2019-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
47 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-355 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2226 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 7:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Ellis, Graham, Jewell, Lane and 13 more56 min
May 27, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCJewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith6 hr
May 27, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic, Washington7 hr
May 27, 11:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCRepublic63 min
May 28, 1:23 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Doniphan2 hr
May 28, 1:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDecatur, Norton, Rawlins4 hr
May 28, 12:04 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Coffey, Dickinson and 20 more86 min
May 28, 1:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 21 more8 hr
May 28, 2:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Cowley, Elk and 13 more88 min
May 28, 2:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 14 more7 hr
May 28, 2:55 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Nemaha95 min
May 28, 3:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Cloud, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic, Washington7 hr
May 28, 3:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 15 more3 hr
May 28, 4:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCEllis, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Lane, Logan and 8 more5 hr
May 28, 5:12 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson and 7 more93 min
May 28, 5:33 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Cowley, Dickinson and 13 more87 min
May 28, 5:38 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCJewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith3 hr
May 28, 6:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Republic, Washington94 min
May 28, 3:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarter, Cotton, Jefferson, Johnston, Love, Marshall and 3 more67 min
May 28, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCotton, Jefferson, Tillman6 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.