Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1325
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 17, 2004, 9:51 PM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 2004, 9:51 PM CDT (02:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2004, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:51 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, 2.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 603 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 872 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 479 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 17, 7:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 8:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 22 more | 30 min |
| Jun 17, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 17, 11:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Comanche, Cowley and 21 more | 91 min |
| Jun 17, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Chase, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 19 more | 91 min |
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.