Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1859
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 3, 2004, 3:59 PM CDT for 24 counties in Kansas; 11 counties in Oklahoma; 12 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2004, 3:59 PM CDT (20:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2004, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 47 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woods 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, Potter County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 928 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cowley, Dickinson and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clark and 33 more | 97 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.