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Mesoscale Discussion 1311

June 16, 200421 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 16, 2004, 9:33 PM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 16, 2004, 9:33 PM CDT (02:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2004, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Harper County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Saline County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:36 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 68 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 2004-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1071 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2004-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1071 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2203 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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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 16, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 11 more5 hr
Jun 17, 2:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFinney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton 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.