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Mesoscale Discussion 1291

June 10, 200314 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 10, 2003, 1:20 AM CDT for 14 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 10, 2003, 1:20 AM CDT (06:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2003, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:20 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 2435 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.4

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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, 9:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Edwards and 28 more	60 min
Jun 9, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 21 more	5 hr
Jun 9, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clay, Cloud, Graham, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell and 7 more	6 hr
Jun 9, 11:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 17 more	118 min
Jun 9, 11:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jackson and 10 more	119 min
Jun 10, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Geary and 11 more	5 hr
Jun 10, 2:44 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson and 8 more	2 hr
Jun 10, 7:07 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Linn and 1 more	113 min
Jun 10, 12:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 21 more	117 min
Jun 10, 12:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 29 more	6 hr
Jun 10, 1:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chautauqua, Labette, Montgomery	2 hr
Jun 10, 5:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Barber, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Franklin and 11 more	95 min
Jun 10, 6:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas	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.