Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1562
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 7, 2004, 2:06 PM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas; 16 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 24 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 2004, 2:06 PM CDT (19:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2004, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Barton County, KS, Chase County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:06 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 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 432 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 7, 12:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Geary and 10 more | 56 min |
| Jul 7, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 6:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 36 more | 90 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.