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Mesoscale Discussion 1179
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 1, 2003, 12:46 PM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas; Dundy County, Hayes County, Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 119 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2003, 12:46 PM CDT (17:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2003, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Cheyenne County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:45 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -273 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2241 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton, Seward and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray and 18 more | 116 min |
| Jun 1, 5:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 25 more | 57 min |
| Jun 1, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Decatur and 45 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 6:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 9 more | 63 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2003Every 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.