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Mesoscale Discussion 1538

July 6, 20046 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 6, 2004, 12:16 AM MDT for 6 states. It was in force for 119 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 2004, 12:16 AM MDT (06:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 2004, 2:15 AM MDT
In force
119 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 94 counties

Baca County, CO, Atchison County, KS, Barber County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clark County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Grant County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morris County, KS, Morton County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Seward County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Holt County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Worth County, MO, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Osage County, OK, Payne County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 72 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, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2004-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2262 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, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2004-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 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
2262 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2094 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
10.5

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 7:50 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCProwers55 min
Jul 5, 10:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBaca4 hr
Jul 6, 2:31 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLas Animas2 hr
Jul 5, 6:10 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Graham, Jewell and 15 more65 min
Jul 5, 6:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCloud, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell and 9 more6 hr
Jul 5, 6:54 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 17 more96 min
Jul 5, 9:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtchison, Barber, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 39 more6 hr
Jul 5, 10:31 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 28 more59 min
Jul 6, 1:45 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Coffey, Douglas and 9 more2 hr
Jul 6, 2:10 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 27 more5 hr
Jul 6, 4:18 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 26 more117 min
Jul 5, 6:05 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCamden, Cole, Crawford, Dallas, Franklin, Gasconade and 13 more55 min
Jul 5, 10:44 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFranklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, Warren and 1 more91 min
Jul 6, 2:50 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarry, McDonald, Stone5 hr
Jul 6, 5:50 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAudrain, Callaway, Cole, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson and 11 more4 hr
Jul 6, 10:01 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dent, Howell and 19 more59 min
Jul 6, 11:10 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Iron and 13 more6 hr
Jul 6, 1:34 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Iron and 12 more56 min
Jul 6, 1:53 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCity of Saint Louis37 min
Jul 6, 4:37 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Iron and 11 more53 min
Jul 6, 2:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBailey, Carson, Castro, Cochran, Dallam, Deaf Smith and 14 more6 hr

Nearby

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