Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 1184
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 1, 2003, 5:03 PM CDT for 31 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2003, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 1037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 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, 12:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan, Rawlins and 5 more | 119 min |
| 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, 5:40 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, 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.