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Mesoscale Discussion 1193

June 1, 200318 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 1, 2003, 11:06 PM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2003, 11:06 PM CDT (04:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2003, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Allen County, KS, Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Marion County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:07 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 225 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: 487 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1751 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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, 8:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 10 more	65 min
Jun 1, 10:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Kiowa and 6 more	13 min
Jun 2, 2:53 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk, Greenwood and 5 more	2 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.