Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 709
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 16, 2004, 6:04 PM CDT for 32 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 86 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 2004, 6:04 PM CDT (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2004, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 47 counties
Clark County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Buffalo County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 753 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 3:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray and 15 more | 88 min |
| May 16, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Ellis, Finney, Ford and 28 more | 7 hr |
| May 16, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Marshall, Mitchell and 7 more | 4 hr |
| May 16, 1:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Boyd, Brown, Cedar, Dakota, Dixon and 12 more | 2 hr |
| May 16, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Buffalo, Butler and 29 more | 5 hr |
| May 16, 6:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Buffalo, Butler and 29 more | 2 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.