Alert archive / Missouri / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 2099
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 5, 2003, 5:51 PM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas; 26 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 114 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 2003, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2003, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford 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, Miami County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Clay County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Polk County, MO, Ray County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 45 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, 1:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Coffey and 20 more | 115 min |
| 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 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 |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2003Mesoscale 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.