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Mesoscale Discussion 967

June 3, 201911 counties in Kansas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 6 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 3, 2019, 4:50 PM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 2019, 4:50 PM CDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2019, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 80%

Counties Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 323Jun 3, 5:10 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2025 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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
Jun 3, 2:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Morton, Sherman, Stanton and 1 more	119 min
Jun 3, 3:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson and 10 more	2 hr
Jun 3, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 5 more	6 hr
Jun 3, 12:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pittsburg and 1 more	2 hr
Jun 2, 9:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Cochran, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Glasscock and 6 more	57 min
Jun 3, 4:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Culberson, El Paso, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Presidio	53 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2019 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2019 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2019 Every 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.