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Mesoscale Discussion 1092

June 4, 20046 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 4, 2004, 8:04 PM CDT for 6 states. It was in force for 116 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 2004, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2004, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
116 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 122 counties

Barton County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Barnes County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Grant County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Rock County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Valley County, NE, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Aurora County, SD, Beadle County, SD, Bennett County, SD, Brown County, SD, Brule County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Day County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Jones County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Potter County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Spink County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD, Walworth County, SD, Hansford County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 126 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2004-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1996 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2004-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1996 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2002 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.9

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 2:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Ford, Meade, Seward116 min
Jun 5, 2:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEllis, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips and 3 more95 min
Jun 5, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 29 more6 hr
Jun 5, 5:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford and 9 more87 min
Jun 5, 4:50 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoyd, Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Holt, Knox and 3 more115 min
Jun 5, 2:59 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGrand Forks, Pembina91 min
Jun 5, 5:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChoctaw, McCurtain60 min
Jun 5, 12:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAurora, Beadle, Brookings, Clark, Codington, Davison and 16 more94 min
Jun 4, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coleman and 22 more4 hr
Jun 4, 9:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Burnet, Coryell, Lampasas, Williamson115 min
Jun 4, 11:43 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBorden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 18 more2 hr
Jun 5, 11:45 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChambers, Hardin, Harris, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty and 3 more3 hr
Jun 5, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArmstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Cochran and 17 more6 hr
Jun 5, 3:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBorden, Coke, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens, Fisher and 14 more2 hr
Jun 5, 4:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Brazoria, Caldwell, Calhoun and 17 more2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2004Every 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.