Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1569
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 8, 2004, 10:09 AM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Missouri; 6 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2004, 10:09 AM CDT (15:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2004, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties
Allen County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Newton County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Craig County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:10 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 1067 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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, 7:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 26 more | 3 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 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.