Alert archive / Missouri / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 2200
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 20, 2003, 3:26 PM CDT for 20 counties in Kansas; 25 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 94 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 20, 2003, 3:26 PM CDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood 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, Shawnee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 928 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1785 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 32 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 19, 10:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 12 more | 96 min |
| Aug 20, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 20, 2:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Putnam, Schuyler and 1 more | 90 min |
| Aug 20, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Mercer, Putnam, Schuyler, Scotland | 5 hr |
| Aug 20, 5:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Callaway, Carter, Cole, Crawford, Dent and 30 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 20, 6:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Mercer, Putnam, Schuyler, Scotland | 2 hr |
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.