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Mesoscale Discussion 839
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 19, 2024, 5:17 PM CDT for 38 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 118 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 2024, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2024, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe thunderstorm watch 260
All 43 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Harper County, OK, Major County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 226 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -383 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1296 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 414 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 1:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 2 hr |
| May 19, 1:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 21 more | 2 hr |
| May 19, 2:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Ellis, Lincoln, Mitchell, Ottawa and 3 more | 115 min |
| May 19, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clark, Clay and 51 more | 7 hr |
| May 19, 3:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Chase, Clark, Clay, Comanche and 44 more | 114 min |
| May 19, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Logan, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins and 4 more | 4 hr |
| May 19, 5:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chautauqua and 25 more | 95 min |
| May 19, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chautauqua and 27 more | 8 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2024Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2024Every mesoscale discussion in 2024
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.