Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1302
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 16, 2004, 12:40 PM CDT for 34 counties in Kansas; 23 counties in Missouri; Richardson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 95 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 2004, 12:40 PM CDT (17:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2004, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 95 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 58 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Worth County, MO, Richardson County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:43 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 11 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
- 1546 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 854 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 15, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 10:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clark, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 20 more | 96 min |
| Jun 15, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Republic and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 2:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha and 4 more | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 10:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Hamilton, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 97 min |
| Jun 16, 1:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Sherman | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Finney, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 16, 6:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell and 11 more | 63 min |
| Jun 15, 7:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Knox | 53 min |
| Jun 15, 9:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Knox, Pierce, Wayne | 60 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.