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Mesoscale Discussion 1282

June 15, 200421 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 15, 2004, 4:50 AM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 115 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 2004, 4:50 AM CDT (09:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2004, 6:45 AM CDT
In force: 115 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 21 counties

Barton County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 5020 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 935 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.8
Supercell composite: 14.3

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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 14, 8:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 33 more	54 min
Jun 14, 9:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Douglas and 13 more	113 min
Jun 14, 10:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur and 40 more	88 min
Jun 14, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barton, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney and 33 more	5 hr
Jun 14, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Clay, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas and 19 more	5 hr
Jun 15, 2:00 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Edwards, Ellis and 21 more	2 hr
Jun 15, 3:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 27 more	5 hr
Jun 15, 7:07 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Franklin and 6 more	83 min
Jun 15, 1:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Morton, Sherman, Stanton and 1 more	2 hr
Jun 15, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 12 more	6 hr

Nearby

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.