Alert archive / Missouri / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 5
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 4, 2004, 12:00 AM CST for 13 counties in Kansas; 18 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 4, 2004, 12:00 AM CST (06:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 4, 2004, 2:30 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Atchison County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Miami County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:02 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 100 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 480 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 664 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
449 ACUS11 KWNS 040600 SWOMCD SPC MCD 040600 MOZ000-KSZ000-040830- MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0005 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 1200 AM CST SUN JAN 04 2004 AREAS AFFECTED...NERN KS TO NRN MO CONCERNING...WINTER MIXED PRECIPITATION VALID 040600Z - 040830Z ...A WINTRY MIX OF PRECIPITATION WILL SPREAD NEWD ACROSS NERN KS INTO NRN MO EARLY THIS MORNING... STRONG WARM ADVECTION APPEARS TO BE PARTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR MOST RECENT CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT OVER ERN PORTIONS OF KS. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE INTENSIFYING AHEAD OF DEVELOPING 850MB LOW WHICH WILL LIFT ACROSS KS INTO WCNTRL MO LATER THIS MORNING. SFC TEMPERATURES HAVE COOLED BELOW FREEZING AND IT APPEARS POCKETS OF HEAVY SLEET WILL ACCOMPANY THIS ACTIVITY...WITH NRN MOST PORTIONS POSSIBLY MIXING WITH SNOW. KANSAS CITY METRO AREA SHOULD RECEIVE MOSTLY HEAVY SLEET WITH FREEZING RAIN THE DOMINANT TYPE FROM SERN PORTIONS OF THE METRO INTO CENTRAL MO. ..DARROW.. 01/04/2004 ...PLEASE SEE WWW.SPC.NOAA.GOV FOR GRAPHIC PRODUCT... ATTN...WFO...EAX...TOP...ICT... 38899663 40349369 40079263 39339258 38649345 38239479 38209641
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 2:08 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Lincoln, Monroe, Montgomery, Pike, Ralls | 5 hr |
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.