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Mesoscale Discussion 1913
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 9, 2023, 2:37 AM CDT for 27 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 113 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2023, 2:37 AM CDT (07:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2023, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe thunderstorm watch 616
All 27 counties
Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:39 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 1845 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 8:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant and 13 more | 84 min |
| Aug 8, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove and 35 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 9, 3:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Labette | 114 min |
| Aug 9, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee | 6 hr |
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.