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Mesoscale Discussion 1414

June 24, 200421 counties in Kansas; 24 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 24, 2004, 7:05 PM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas; 24 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 85 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 24, 2004, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 85 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 45 counties

Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Audrain County, MO, Boone County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Marion County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Shelby County, MO

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 49 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 63 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -268 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1178 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 343 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2004 Every 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.