Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 2019
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 16, 2004, 3:55 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 2004, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2004, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Union County, NM, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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 nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 332 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 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 16, 1:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 16, 3:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Gray and 14 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 16, 12:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Hidalgo, Luna | 66 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.