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Mesoscale Discussion 1187

June 1, 200315 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 1, 2003, 6:27 PM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2003, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Clark County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 45 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: 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

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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
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, 5:03 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

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.