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Mesoscale Discussion 620

May 2, 202216 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 2, 2022, 1:10 PM CDT for 16 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 2, 2022, 1:10 PM CDT (18:10 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2022, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe potential...tornado watch likely
Chance of a watch: 80%

Counties Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:12 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 watches that followed

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

Tornado Watch 171May 2, 2:00 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 743 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 474 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 651 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 1, 10:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton and 5 more	2 hr
May 2, 2:02 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Barber, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards and 9 more	8 hr
May 2, 3:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Comanche, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa, Pratt	88 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.