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Mesoscale Discussion 945

May 23, 202519 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 23, 2025, 9:54 PM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2025, 9:54 PM CDT (02:54 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2025, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe potential...severe thunderstorm watch likely
Chance of a watch: 80%

Counties Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Gove County, KS, Harper County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane 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, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 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 314May 23, 10:35 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 1054 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -196 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1070 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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 23, 7:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Greeley, Sherman, Wallace	2 hr
May 23, 9:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Greeley, Hamilton	65 min
May 23, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 33 more	7 hr
May 24, 1:47 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Chautauqua, Cowley, Edwards, Elk, Harper and 9 more	88 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.