Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1362
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 20, 2004, 9:52 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 83 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 2004, 9:52 PM CDT (02:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2004, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 83 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 92 counties
Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Harper County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Webster County, NE, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:54 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 1284 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1276 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
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 20, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Republic and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 20, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 16 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 21, 12:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cloud and 34 more | 61 min |
| Jun 21, 2:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stanton, Stevens | 95 min |
| Jun 20, 8:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Harper and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 2:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Canadian, Creek, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 15 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron | 5 hr |
| Jun 21, 6:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron | 93 min |
| Jun 21, 2:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Callahan, Camp, Cass, Coleman, Collin and 41 more | 84 min |
| Jun 21, 5:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Hamilton, Mills and 1 more | 84 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.