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Mesoscale Discussion 367
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 9, 2026, 1:39 PM CDT for 16 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 9, 2026, 1:39 PM CDT (18:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2026, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch possible
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 24 counties
Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Smith County, KS, Washington County, KS, Fillmore County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Saline County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:40 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 1733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Barton, Brown, Clark, Clay, Cloud and 34 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 9, 6:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Geary, Jackson, Jewell, Lincoln and 9 more | 117 min |
| Apr 9, 6:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth, Ford and 10 more | 97 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2026Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2026Every mesoscale discussion in 2026
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.