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Mesoscale Discussion 997

June 1, 202218 counties in Kansas; 17 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 1, 2022, 2:17 AM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas; 17 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2022, 2:17 AM CDT (07:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2022, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe thunderstorm watch 298

All 35 counties

Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Dade County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:16 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 373 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1257 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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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 31, 9:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Sumner	61 min
May 31, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 21 more	5 hr
May 31, 11:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Coffey and 9 more	96 min
Jun 1, 1:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot	116 min
Jun 1, 1:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Mississippi	92 min
Jun 1, 3:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barry, Christian, Douglas, Greene, Howell, Lawrence and 7 more	86 min
Jun 1, 6:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butler, Cape Girardeau, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot and 2 more	96 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2022 Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2022 Every mesoscale discussion in 2022

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.