Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 2081
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 23, 2004, 2:14 AM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2004, 2:14 AM CDT (07:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2004, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Washington County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:16 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 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1925 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1529 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 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 23, 3:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Osborne, Phillips and 7 more | 113 min |
| Aug 23, 3:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 9 more | 117 min |
| Aug 23, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chase and 30 more | 116 min |
| Aug 23, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chase and 27 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.