Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1935
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 9, 2004, 5:30 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2004, 5:30 PM MDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2004, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties
Baca County, CO, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Colfax County, NM, Harding County, NM, Union County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 1315 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 865 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 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 9, 12:03 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 6 more | 87 min |
| Aug 9, 12:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 9, 12:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca | 7 hr |
| Aug 9, 4:36 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bent, Crowley, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso, Kiowa and 4 more | 54 min |
| Aug 8, 6:09 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary, Lincoln and 9 more | 66 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.