Alert archive / Missouri / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 2242
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 17, 2004, 10:27 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas; 29 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 17, 2004, 10:27 PM CDT (03:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2004, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:28 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -819 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1757 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 408 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 7:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 18, 1:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Wyandotte | 117 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2004Mesoscale 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.