Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 2031
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 31, 2003, 2:04 PM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 2003, 2:04 PM CDT (19:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2003, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Henry County, MO, Jackson County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -490 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2813 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Graham and 12 more | 89 min |
| Jul 31, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Cloud, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 31, 4:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Gove and 16 more | 114 min |
| Jul 31, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 45 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 31, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Linn | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.