Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 1526
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 27, 2003, 5:20 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 2003, 5:20 PM MDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2003, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 52 counties
Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Clark 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, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Harding County, NM, Union County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 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 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1939 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 27, 12:23 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero, Sierra | 82 min |
| Jun 27, 1:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero, Sierra | 6 hr |
| Jun 27, 5:52 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Doña Ana, Grant, Luna, Otero, Sierra | 83 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.