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Mesoscale Discussion 2095
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 5, 2003, 1:50 PM CDT for 26 counties in Kansas; 31 counties in Missouri; 6 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 2003, 1:50 PM CDT (18:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2003, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 63 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Brown County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Miami County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Platte County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Gage County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:49 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -218 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1205 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 3:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Ford, Gray, Kiowa, Meade | 116 min |
| Aug 5, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Cherokee, Coffey and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Coffey, Crawford and 17 more | 114 min |
| Aug 4, 8:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Christian, Douglas, Dunklin, Howell, New Madrid and 5 more | 95 min |
| Aug 4, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Douglas, Dunklin, Howell, Ozark | 6 hr |
| Aug 4, 11:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 88 min |
| Aug 4, 7:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.