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Mesoscale Discussion 588
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 14, 2020, 8:22 PM CDT for Appanoose County, Davis County, Wayne County, Iowa; 20 counties in Kansas; 27 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 113 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2020, 8:22 PM CDT (01:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2020, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Appanoose County, IA, Davis County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Chase County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ray County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Sullivan County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 1438 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1184 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 7.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 9:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Des Moines, Louisa, Muscatine | 52 min |
| May 14, 9:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 7 more | 3 hr |
| May 14, 10:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Coffey, Crawford, Douglas and 9 more | 2 hr |
| May 14, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 11 more | 5 hr |
| May 15, 1:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 10 more | 114 min |
| May 15, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Christian, Crawford, Dade, Dallas, Dent, Douglas and 23 more | 3 hr |
| May 15, 3:20 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Dent, Douglas, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson and 12 more | 85 min |
| May 15, 4:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dent, Douglas, Jefferson, Texas, Washington, Wright and 1 more | 57 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 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.