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Mesoscale Discussion 1925

August 10, 202528 counties in Kansas; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 10, 2025, 6:42 PM CDT for 28 counties in Kansas; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 10, 2025, 6:42 PM CDT (23:42 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2025, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 93 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe potential...severe thunderstorm watch likely
Chance of a watch: 80%

All 31 counties

Cheyenne County, KS, Clark County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watches that followed

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

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 586Aug 10, 8:20 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 1714 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -11 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
Aug 9, 7:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 25 more	115 min
Aug 9, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brown, Clay, Cloud, Ellis, Finney, Gove and 29 more	8 hr
Aug 9, 9:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne and 6 more	2 hr
Aug 10, 12:39 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Cloud, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell, Nemaha and 5 more	96 min
Aug 10, 1:44 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Doniphan	2 hr
Aug 10, 2:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atchison, Doniphan	4 hr
Aug 10, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne	10 hr
Aug 10, 5:09 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 14 more	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2025 Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2025 Every mesoscale discussion in 2025

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.