Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 1550
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 29, 2003, 2:16 PM CDT for 31 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 2003, 2:16 PM CDT (19:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2003, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
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 28, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Lane, Logan and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 28, 8:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove and 24 more | 96 min |
| Jun 28, 11:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche, Decatur and 45 more | 54 min |
| Jun 29, 4:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette and 4 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.