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Mesoscale Discussion 2038

July 31, 2003Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas; 20 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 31, 2003, 7:12 PM CDT for Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas; 20 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 31, 2003, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 2003, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 93 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 23 counties

Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howell County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Newton County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Polk County, MO, Stone County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 261 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: 469 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -333 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2286 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 513 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 31, 7:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Butler, Cowley, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 22 more	88 min
Jul 31, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 2 more	5 hr
Aug 1, 10:35 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 20 more	2 hr
Aug 1, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 11 more	6 hr
Aug 1, 6:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 8 more	2 hr
Aug 1, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace	5 hr
Aug 1, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clark	6 hr
Aug 1, 2:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dunklin and 15 more	2 hr
Aug 1, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Iron, Madison and 10 more	6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2003 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.