Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 233
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 27, 2004, 3:04 PM CST for 27 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 2004, 3:04 PM CST (21:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2004, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Anderson County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Pawnee County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 6:00 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:55 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Morton, Seward, Stanton, Stevens | 2 hr |
| Mar 27, 7:12 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Harper and 7 more | 93 min |
| Mar 27, 9:12 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 21 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 27, 11:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 27, 12:07 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Harper, Sumner | 113 min |
| Mar 27, 1:35 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, McPherson and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:36 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Edwards, Kingman, Pawnee, Pratt and 3 more | 114 min |
| Mar 27, 2:34 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley and 12 more | 116 min |
| Mar 27, 12:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Butler, Cedar, Colfax and 23 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.