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Mesoscale Discussion 1053

June 2, 20048 counties in Kansas; 33 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 2, 2004, 11:50 AM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas; 33 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 85 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2004, 11:50 AM CDT (16:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2004, 1:15 PM CDT
In force: 85 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 41 counties

Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Harper County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Creek County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McClain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Noble County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:51 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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 679 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -213 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1765 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 9:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Grant and 12 more	5 hr
Jun 2, 3:20 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Clark, Grant, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward and 2 more	7 hr
Jun 2, 6:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton, Wallace, Wichita	93 min
Jun 2, 12:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Canadian, Cherokee, Craig, Creek and 25 more	5 hr
Jun 2, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair	5 hr
Jun 2, 1:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cimarron	3 hr
Jun 2, 2:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Caddo, Canadian, Cherokee, Cleveland, Creek and 21 more	115 min
Jun 2, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland and 23 more	4 hr
Jun 2, 4:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Johnston, LeFlore and 4 more	56 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2004 Every mesoscale discussion in 2004

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.