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Mesoscale Discussion 720
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2020, 10:48 PM CDT for 31 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2020, 10:48 PM CDT (03:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2020, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe thunderstorm watch 221
All 31 counties
Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Smith County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:50 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 177 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, 8:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clark, Cloud, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 26 more | 60 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.