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Mesoscale Discussion 271
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 27, 2025, 3:51 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 114 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 2025, 3:51 PM CDT (20:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2025, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch unlikely
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 41 counties
Fremont County, IA, Page County, IA, Atchison County, KS, Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Atchison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1439 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 10:03 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Ringgold | 117 min |
| Mar 27, 6:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Douglas and 17 more | 114 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.