Alert archive / Oklahoma / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1540
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 6, 2004, 5:18 AM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2004, 5:18 AM CDT (10:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2004, 7:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 134 counties
Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Madison County, AR, Washington County, AR, Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Camden County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Christian County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Polk County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McClain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:18 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 2039 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1471 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 13.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 3:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Madison, Sebastian, Washington | 5 hr |
| Jul 6, 11:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Fulton, Randolph, Sharp | 59 min |
| Jul 6, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Faulkner and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 2:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Mississippi | 56 min |
| Jul 6, 5:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Fulton, Greene, Lawrence, Randolph and 1 more | 53 min |
| Jul 5, 7:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Graham, Jewell and 15 more | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cloud, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 7:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 17 more | 96 min |
| Jul 5, 8:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ellis, Finney, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Hamilton and 16 more | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Barber, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 39 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 11:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 28 more | 59 min |
| Jul 5, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Grant, Harper, Haskell and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 1:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Barber, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 46 more | 119 min |
| Jul 6, 2:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Coffey, Douglas and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 5, 7:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Camden, Cole, Crawford, Dallas, Franklin, Gasconade and 13 more | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 11:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, Warren and 1 more | 91 min |
| Jul 6, 6:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Callaway, Cole, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 2:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | City of Saint Louis | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 3:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron, Harmon | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bailey, Carson, Castro, Cochran, Dallam, Deaf Smith and 14 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2004Mesoscale 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.