Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1922
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 8, 2004, 1:05 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2004, 1:05 PM CDT (18:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2004, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 85 counties
Fremont County, IA, Harrison County, IA, Mills County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Clay County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gage County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Washington County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:08 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 531 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 8, 12:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cerro Gordo, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Floyd, Franklin and 10 more | 58 min |
| Aug 8, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Brown, Buffalo, Butler and 25 more | 90 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 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.