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Mesoscale Discussion 1086
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 2, 2020, 7:04 PM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas; 17 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 2020, 7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2020, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch likely
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 24 counties
Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 3485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1369 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 4 hr |
| Jul 2, 9:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth, Graham, Lincoln and 10 more | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 2, 11:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Harvey and 8 more | 85 min |
| Jul 3, 3:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Stanton | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 8:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherry | 59 min |
| Jul 3, 1:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Boyd, Burt, Cedar, Cuming, Dakota and 8 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2020Every mesoscale discussion in 2020
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.