Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1947
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 10, 2004, 5:47 PM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 9 counties in Texas. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 2004, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2004, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 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, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 198 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2110 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 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 9, 7:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 15 more | 54 min |
| 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, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Greeley and 13 more | 6 hr |
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.