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Mesoscale Discussion 592
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 14, 2020, 10:58 PM CDT for Adams County, Illinois; 15 counties in Kansas; 35 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2020, 10:58 PM CDT (03:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2020, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 51 counties
Adams County, IL, Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Audrain County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clark County, MO, Clay County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Marion County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Shelby County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:58 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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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 | Henry, Knox, Mercer, Rock Island, Stark, Warren | 52 min |
| May 14, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Pike | 5 hr |
| May 15, 1:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 31 more | 114 min |
| May 15, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calhoun | 3 hr |
| May 14, 8:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Chase, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 14 more | 113 min |
| May 14, 9:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 7 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 Illinois, 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.