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Mesoscale Discussion 1499

June 24, 20039 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 24, 2003, 8:51 PM CDT for 9 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 24, 2003, 8:51 PM CDT (01:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2003, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:53 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 54 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -422 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 700 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 642 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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 25, 10:36 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 38 more	114 min
Jun 25, 12:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 33 more	5 hr
Jun 25, 2:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Coffey, Crawford and 16 more	2 hr
Jun 25, 6:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chautauqua, Cherokee, Labette, Montgomery	83 min

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.