Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 2268
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 26, 2003, 2:19 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2003, 2:19 PM CDT (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2003, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 100 counties
Appanoose County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Davis County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Des Moines County, IA, Henry County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Lee County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Marion County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Page County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Atchison County, KS, Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lane County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clark County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ray County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Shelby County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 720 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1944 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 25, 7:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mercer, Rock Island | 87 min |
| Aug 25, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Henderson, Mercer, Rock Island, Warren | 5 hr |
| Aug 26, 12:21 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Jo Daviess, Lake, McHenry, Stephenson, Winnebago | 84 min |
| Aug 26, 11:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, Champaign, Ford, Grundy, Henry, Iroquois and 11 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, DeWitt, Fulton, Hancock and 14 more | 90 min |
| Aug 25, 7:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 28 more | 67 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 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.