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Mesoscale Discussion 718
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2020, 8:30 PM CDT for 32 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2020, 8:30 PM CDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2020, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe thunderstorm watch 221
All 37 counties
Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Seward County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS, Franklin County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:33 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 1828 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- 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 24, 7:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 84 min |
| May 24, 10:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Finney, Geary and 25 more | 117 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.