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Mesoscale Discussion 1076

May 22, 200318 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 22, 2003, 8:48 PM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 87 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2003, 8:48 PM CDT (01:48 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2003, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 87 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 33 counties

Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Arthur County, NE, Chase County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 208 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: 506 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -202 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 989 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 270 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 1:02 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 38 more	118 min
May 23, 6:25 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Harper	2 hr
May 23, 2:54 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Garden, Kimball and 4 more	2 hr
May 23, 4:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boyd, Brown, Garfield, Holt, Keya Paha, Loup and 1 more	57 min
May 23, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cherry, Grant, Hooker, Sheridan, Thomas	6 hr
May 23, 6:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherry, Grant, Hooker, Sheridan, Thomas	85 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2003 Every mesoscale discussion in 2003

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.