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Mesoscale Discussion 663

May 21, 202011 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 21, 2020, 11:28 PM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 21, 2020, 11:28 PM CDT (04:28 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2020, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe thunderstorm watch 200

Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Ford County, KS, Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Harper County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 75 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1349 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1147 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 8.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 9:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 18 more	65 min
May 21, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 15 more	8 hr
May 22, 3:54 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Marshall, Nemaha, Washington	96 min
May 22, 3:51 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blaine, Canadian, Custer, Dewey, Garfield, Grant and 8 more	84 min
May 22, 5:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Atoka, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal, Creek and 21 more	6 hr
May 22, 9:15 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	LeFlore	90 min
May 22, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Jefferson, Love and 3 more	6 hr
May 22, 4:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Comanche and 17 more	2 hr
May 22, 6:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cotton, Jefferson, Love	115 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2020 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.