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Mesoscale Discussion 1544

June 28, 20034 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 28, 2003, 11:06 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 2003, 11:06 PM CDT (04:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2003, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 65 counties

Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Hansford County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 35 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 2003-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2306 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 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 2003-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -48 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
2306 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1409 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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 28, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Lane, Logan and 9 more6 hr
Jun 28, 8:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove and 24 more96 min
Jun 29, 2:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 25 more59 min
Jun 29, 4:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette and 4 more2 hr
Jun 29, 1:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCallahan, Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Hood, Jones and 4 more88 min
Jun 29, 3:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBailey, Baylor, Cochran, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 19 more59 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.