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Mesoscale Discussion 1273

June 9, 200316 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 9, 2003, 4:30 PM CDT for 16 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 2003, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2003, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 23 counties

Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Logan County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 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.

Tornado Watch 493Jun 9, 4:50 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 343 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -293 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1527 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 233 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 9, 2:05 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bourbon, Franklin, Linn, Osage, Pottawatomie and 4 more	115 min
Jun 9, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Cloud, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton and 6 more	5 hr
Jun 9, 6:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Graham, Norton, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	90 min
Jun 9, 2:55 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock	6 hr
Jun 9, 3:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blaine, Buffalo, Custer, Dawson, Lincoln, Logan and 4 more	2 hr
Jun 9, 5:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock	90 min
Jun 9, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Antelope, Boone, Burt, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 11 more	7 hr
Jun 9, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Antelope, Boone, Burt, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 11 more	6 hr

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.