Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 327
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 25, 2003, 2:33 AM CST for 23 counties in Kansas; 17 counties in Missouri; 14 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 2003, 2:33 AM CST (08:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2003, 5:30 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 54 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barber County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Alfalfa County, OK, Craig County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Washington County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:33 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 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 1540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 1:58 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot | 2 hr |
| Mar 25, 2:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dunklin, New Madrid, Pemiscot | 5 hr |
| Mar 25, 5:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Pemiscot | 6 hr |
| Mar 24, 8:45 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Creek, Grady and 17 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 1:39 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, McCurtain | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 3:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.