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Mesoscale Discussion 57
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 16, 2020, 11:17 PM CST for 34 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Missouri; 4 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 16, 2020, 11:17 PM CST (05:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 2020, 3:15 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 42 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barber County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Clark County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ford County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Labette County, KS, Marion County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Dade County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Alfalfa County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Woods County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:18 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2361 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 349 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 3:20 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler and 48 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 17, 9:45 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 6 hr |
| Jan 17, 4:07 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Chariton, Clark, Grundy, Knox and 18 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.