Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1564
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 7, 2004, 6:15 PM CDT for 42 counties in Kansas; 22 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 90 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 2004, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 64 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay 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, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 206 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, 2:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Chase, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Jewell and 13 more | 24 min |
| Jul 7, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth and 16 more | 6 hr |
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.