Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1309
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 16, 2004, 5:42 PM MDT for 6 counties in Colorado; 17 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 2004, 5:42 PM MDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2004, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Baca County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1046 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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, 7:04 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Phillips, Yuma | 56 min |
| Jun 16, 9:08 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero, Prowers | 97 min |
| Jun 16, 12:12 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Boulder, Broomfield, Cheyenne and 15 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:37 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mesa, Montrose, San Miguel | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:50 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Huerfano, Kiowa, Las Animas and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 9:39 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clark, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 20 more | 96 min |
| Jun 15, 10:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Republic and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 1:18 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha and 4 more | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 11:40 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 28 more | 95 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.