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Mesoscale Discussion 1341

June 11, 2003Phillips County, Sedgwick County, Colorado; 31 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Nebraska

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2003-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2304 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2003-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 6:51 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCSmith54 min
Jun 12, 3:54 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArthur, Banner, Blaine, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Garden and 10 more96 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.