Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 2193
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 19, 2003, 5:10 PM MDT for 6 states. It was in force for 95 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 2003, 5:10 PM MDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2003, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 95 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 134 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Adair County, IA, Adams County, IA, Audubon County, IA, Boone County, IA, Calhoun County, IA, Carroll County, IA, Cass County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Crawford County, IA, Dallas County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Fremont County, IA, Greene County, IA, Guthrie County, IA, Hamilton County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Harrison County, IA, Humboldt County, IA, Ida County, IA, Madison County, IA, Mills County, IA, Monona County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Polk County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Sac County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Story County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Union County, IA, Warren County, IA, Webster County, IA, Wright County, IA, Atchison County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clark County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morton County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ness County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Worth County, MO, Burt County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Clay County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Gage County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Polk County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Washington County, NE, York County, NE, Cimarron County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 594 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1940 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
158 ACUS11 KWNS 192310 SWOMCD SPC MCD 192310 IAZ000-MOZ000-KSZ000-NEZ000-OKZ000-COZ000-NMZ000-200045- MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 2193 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0610 PM CDT TUE AUG 19 2003 AREAS AFFECTED...SE CO...SW THROUGH NE KS...SE NEB...NWRN MO AND SW THROUGH CNTRL IA CONCERNING...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 871...872... VALID 192310Z - 200045Z THREAT FOR MAINLY ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL PERSIST ANOTHER 2-3 HOURS OR SO. OVERALL THREAT IS SOMEWHAT MARGINAL. BEST THREAT NEXT COUPLE HOURS EXPECTED OVER SWRN KS AS WELL AS WITH CLUSTER FROM SERN NEB...NERN KS INTO EXTREME NW MO AND EXTREME SW IA. AREA OF SCATTERED MULTICELL STORMS THAT DEVELOPED ALONG LOW LEVEL THERMAL GRADIENT FROM CNTRL KS NEWD INTO SERN NEB CONTINUES TO LIFT NEWD. NEW CELLS ARE REGENERATING ALONG THERMAL GRADIENT IN REGION OF WARM MOIST INFLOW ACROSS NERN KS INTO SERN NEB. HOWEVER...STORMS APPEAR TO BE HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME DEVELOPING NEWD INTO IA WHERE COOLER BOUNDARY LAYER AND SLIGHTLY STRONGER CAP EXISTS. FARTHER SW...GREATEST THREAT FOR DAMAGING WIND APPEARS TO BE WITH CLUSTER OF STORMS SPREADING EWD THROUGH MORTON AND STANTON COUNTIES WHERE LARGE TEMPERATURE DEWPOINT SPREADS STILL EXIST IN THE WELL MIXED BOUNDARY LAYER. ..DIAL.. 08/19/2003 ...PLEASE SEE WWW.SPC.NOAA.GOV FOR GRAPHIC PRODUCT... ATTN...WFO...DMX...EAX...FSD...OAX...TOP...ICT...OUN...GID...DDC...GLD...AMA...PUB...BOU...ABQ... 37099823 36930002 36750164 36640292 36790309 37540380 38150369 38590325 38830132 39129924 39319835 41219811 42179613 43209355 41529335 40209351 39329564 38069803
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 1:05 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Las Animas | 85 min |
| Aug 19, 1:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 19, 12:08 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan and 32 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 1:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Fremont and 10 more | 84 min |
| Aug 19, 2:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 19, 5:37 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Norton, Phillips | 113 min |
| Aug 19, 1:38 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Caldwell, Camden, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 29 more | 97 min |
| Aug 19, 2:29 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dawes, Grant, Sheridan | 91 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 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.