Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 2442
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 13, 2003, 3:48 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 13, 2003, 3:48 PM CDT (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2003, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Benton County, AR, Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Jasper County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 6:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian, Washington | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 17 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.