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Mesoscale Discussion 2003

December 12, 20229 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Dec 12, 2022, 7:12 PM CST for 9 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Dec 12, 2022, 7:12 PM CST (01:12 UTC)
Expired
Dec 12, 2022, 9:45 PM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning
Severe potential...watch possible
Chance of a watch
60%

Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Meade County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Hansford County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 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 watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 122 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2022-12-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2022-12-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 252 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
252 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
242 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 12, 9:10 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa3 hr
Dec 12, 9:16 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt5 hr
Dec 12, 11:24 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Comanche, Kiowa2 hr
Dec 13, 11:14 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Sherman, Wallace3 hr
Dec 12, 8:25 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Texas4 hr
Dec 12, 9:54 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton and 13 more6 hr
Dec 13, 1:44 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher, Lincoln and 4 more61 min
Dec 13, 3:07 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Garvin and 12 more113 min
Dec 13, 3:58 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Cotton, Hughes and 9 more7 hr
Dec 13, 6:00 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLove90 min
Dec 13, 8:59 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBryan, Choctaw, McCurtain, Pushmataha2 hr
Dec 13, 9:07 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCChoctaw, McCurtain, Pushmataha8 hr
Dec 13, 11:41 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Delta and 25 more2 hr
Dec 13, 1:33 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Angelina, Cass, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison and 17 more117 min
Dec 13, 2:12 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAngelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Houston, Marion and 6 more63 min
Dec 13, 2:15 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Polk, Sabine and 4 more8 hr
Dec 13, 3:51 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAngelina, Harrison, Houston, Jasper, Madison, Nacogdoches and 9 more84 min
Dec 13, 4:44 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCSabine, San Augustine, Shelby91 min

Nearby

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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.