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Mesoscale Discussion 945
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 20, 2020, 3:48 PM CDT for 30 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma; Lipscomb County, Ochiltree County, Texas. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 2020, 3:48 PM CDT (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2020, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch unlikely
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 37 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 15 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
- 125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 9:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Tillman | 114 min |
| Jun 20, 5:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Glasscock and 6 more | 65 min |
| Jun 20, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Coke, Crane, Ector, Glasscock, Howard and 10 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.