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Mesoscale Discussion 389

April 19, 20044 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 19, 2004, 10:04 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 86 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 19, 2004, 10:04 PM MDT (04:04 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2004, 11:30 PM MDT
In force: 86 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 63 counties

Baca County, CO, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Harper County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Apr 19, 8:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baca	5 hr
Apr 20, 11:47 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Elk, Labette, Montgomery and 4 more	88 min
Apr 20, 1:05 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 8 more	6 hr
Apr 20, 4:16 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 8 more	119 min
Apr 19, 6:53 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaver, Cimarron, Texas	67 min
Apr 20, 4:46 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Garvin, Haskell and 13 more	89 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.