Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1937
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 9, 2004, 7:51 PM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2004, 7:51 PM CDT (00:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2004, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:53 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 954 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1423 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove and 25 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 9, 10:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan, Scott and 4 more | 61 min |
| Aug 10, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Gray and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 10, 3:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Gray and 5 more | 97 min |
| Aug 10, 1:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne and 5 more | 113 min |
| Aug 10, 5:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 12 more | 58 min |
| Aug 10, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Greeley and 13 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale 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.