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Mesoscale Discussion 114

February 19, 200420 counties in Kansas; 11 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 19, 2004, 4:34 PM CST for 20 counties in Kansas; 11 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 116 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Feb 19, 2004, 4:34 PM CST (22:34 UTC)
Expired
Feb 19, 2004, 6:30 PM CST
In force
116 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties

Allen County, KS, Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Osage County, OK, Washington County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 193 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2004-02-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2004-02-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 120 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3625 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

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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.