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Mesoscale Discussion 1576
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 8, 2004, 9:05 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Oklahoma; 11 counties in Texas. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2004, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2004, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties
Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Meade County, KS, Seward County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Carson County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:05 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 3705 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.7
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 8, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Decatur, Norton, Phillips, Smith | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 10:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins, Smith | 92 min |
| Jul 9, 12:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth, Geary and 14 more | 56 min |
| Jul 9, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson and 27 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis and 27 more | 89 min |
| Jul 9, 10:10 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Canadian, Cherokee, Creek, Garfield, Kingfisher and 12 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.