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Mesoscale Discussion 2370
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 10, 2003, 11:05 PM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas; 34 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 10, 2003, 11:05 PM CDT (04:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2003, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Cloud County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Burt County, NE, Butler County, NE, Clay County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Madison County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Saline County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Wayne County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:09 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 2303 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1417 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cloud, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Norton and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 10, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 10, 11:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 11, 2:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Harper, Harvey, Kingman and 7 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.