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Mesoscale Discussion 2195

August 19, 200318 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 19, 2003, 10:09 PM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 96 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 19, 2003, 10:09 PM CDT (03:09 UTC)
Expired: Aug 19, 2003, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 96 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ford County, KS, Graham County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Smith County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:12 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 521 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -131 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2360 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 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
Aug 19, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barton, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 32 more	5 hr
Aug 20, 3:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Coffey, Crawford, Douglas and 14 more	94 min
Aug 20, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin and 12 more	5 hr

Nearby

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.