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Mesoscale Discussion 2115

August 25, 20046 counties in Kansas; Bates County, Cass County, Jackson County, Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 25, 2004, 9:35 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas; Bates County, Cass County, Jackson County, Missouri. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 25, 2004, 9:35 PM CDT (02:35 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2004, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Anderson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO, Jackson County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 81 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2879 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1214 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 199 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.4
Supercell composite: 20.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 25, 7:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Camden, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Christian and 40 more	58 min
Aug 25, 9:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Chariton, Clark, Daviess, Grundy, Harrison and 15 more	93 min
Aug 26, 3:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Iron, Jefferson, Lincoln and 12 more	115 min
Aug 26, 4:10 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Atchison, Gentry, Harrison, Holt, Mercer, Nodaway and 1 more	6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2004 Every 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.