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Mesoscale Discussion 1341
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 11, 2003, 8:31 PM MDT for Phillips County, Sedgwick County, Colorado; 31 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2003, 8:31 PM MDT (02:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2003, 9:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 2304 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 11, 6:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Smith | 54 min |
| Jun 12, 3:54 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Blaine, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Garden and 10 more | 96 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.