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Mesoscale Discussion 1509

August 16, 20208 counties in Colorado; 14 counties in Kansas; 32 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 16, 2020, 12:56 PM MDT for 8 counties in Colorado; 14 counties in Kansas; 32 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 16, 2020, 12:56 PM MDT (18:56 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 2020, 3:00 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe potential...severe thunderstorm watch likely
Chance of a watch: 80%

All 54 counties

Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Adams County, NE, Boone County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Chase County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE, Wheeler County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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 text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 16, 1:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 6 more	8 hr
Aug 16, 5:47 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 3 more	88 min
Aug 15, 6:05 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherokee, Labette, Montgomery	55 min
Aug 16, 1:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Jewell, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	7 hr
Aug 16, 5:31 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Butler, Cass, Clay, Fillmore, Franklin and 18 more	89 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2020 Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2020 Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2020 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.