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Mesoscale Discussion 1167

June 9, 200410 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 9, 2004, 10:37 PM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 2004, 10:37 PM CDT (03:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2004, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 25 counties

Decatur County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Arthur County, NE, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sheridan County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:37 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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 1957 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1419 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.9

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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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan and 4 more	4 hr
Jun 10, 3:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 19 more	83 min
Jun 10, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Barton, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham and 13 more	5 hr
Jun 10, 1:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Box Butte, Cherry, Dawes, Garden, Grant, Morrill and 3 more	91 min
Jun 10, 2:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Arthur, Box Butte, Cherry, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel and 9 more	7 hr
Jun 10, 4:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arthur, Box Butte, Cherry, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel and 10 more	91 min
Jun 10, 6:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Custer, Garfield, Greeley and 8 more	97 min
Jun 10, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Custer, Garfield, Greeley and 11 more	5 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.