Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 2214
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 21, 2003, 3:34 PM CDT for 22 counties in Kansas; 18 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 21, 2003, 3:34 PM CDT (20:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2003, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties
Anderson County, KS, Chase County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Bates County, MO, Boone County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Macon County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 1136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -330 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2071 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 20, 7:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin and 13 more | 63 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.