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Mesoscale Discussion 2042
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 1, 2003, 10:35 AM CDT for 26 counties in Kansas; 41 counties in Missouri; 5 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 2003, 10:35 AM CDT (15:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2003, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 72 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, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Osage County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Shannon County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Craig County, OK, Kay County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:37 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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -522 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2019 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 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, 7:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 93 min |
| 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, 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 |
| Aug 1, 5:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Haskell, McIntosh and 8 more | 53 min |
| Aug 1, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, McIntosh, Mayes and 8 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.