Alert archive / Missouri / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1266
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 14, 2004, 11:33 AM CDT for 20 counties in Kansas; 26 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2004, 11:33 AM CDT (16:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2004, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties
Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Audrain County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Holt County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Marion County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Shelby County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:36 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 2551 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 33 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 33 more | 96 min |
| Jun 14, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 11:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Worth | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 7:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Putnam, Schuyler, Scotland | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Franklin, Gasconade and 15 more | 90 min |
| Jun 14, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Franklin, Gasconade and 17 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.