Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1568
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 8, 2004, 7:28 AM CDT for 32 counties in Kansas; 14 counties in Missouri; Craig County, Ottawa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2004, 7:28 AM CDT (12:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2004, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 48 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary 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, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Craig County, OK, Ottawa County, OK
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:29 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 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 2526 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 788 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
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, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Ellis, Ellsworth, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 18 more | 97 min |
| Jul 8, 10:09 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Greene, McDonald, Stone | 86 min |
| Jul 8, 5:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Rogers and 1 more | 62 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.