Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1702
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 15, 2004, 9:00 PM MDT for Phillips County, Sedgwick County, Yuma County, Colorado; 16 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 90 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 2004, 9:00 PM MDT (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2004, 10:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:03 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 946 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2355 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 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 16, 4:01 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Alamosa, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Conejos, Costilla and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 10:34 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson and 9 more | 86 min |
| Jul 16, 2:33 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Coffey and 18 more | 117 min |
| Jul 15, 6:53 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Buffalo, Butler, Cedar and 23 more | 67 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.