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Mesoscale Discussion 1281

June 15, 200427 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 15, 2004, 2:00 AM CDT for 27 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 2004, 2:00 AM CDT (07:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2004, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties

Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 167 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 00:00Z on 2004-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1361 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2004-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 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
1361 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2935 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.7

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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 14, 8:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 33 more54 min
Jun 14, 9:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Douglas and 13 more113 min
Jun 14, 10:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur and 40 more88 min
Jun 14, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarton, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney and 33 more5 hr
Jun 14, 11:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas and 19 more5 hr
Jun 15, 3:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 27 more5 hr
Jun 15, 4:50 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Chase, Clay, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 15 more115 min
Jun 15, 7:07 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Franklin and 6 more83 min
Jun 15, 1:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Morton, Sherman, Stanton and 1 more2 hr
Jun 15, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 12 more6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale 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.