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Mesoscale Discussion 712

May 16, 200413 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 16, 2004, 8:07 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 83 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 16, 2004, 8:07 PM CDT (01:07 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2004, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 83 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 25 counties

Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Smith County, KS, Washington County, KS, Adams County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Saline County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 241 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 277 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1550 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 296 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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
May 16, 8:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gove, Grant and 18 more	93 min
May 16, 9:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Jackson, Jewell, Marshall, Nemaha, Osborne and 4 more	3 hr
May 16, 11:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Harvey, Kingman, Pawnee, Reno, Sedgwick, Stafford	114 min
May 17, 3:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Chase, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 54 more	3 hr
May 17, 3:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Barton, Butler, Clark, Clay, Dickinson, Edwards and 40 more	6 hr
May 17, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha and 2 more	5 hr
May 16, 7:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Antelope, Boone, Butler, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 18 more	3 hr
May 17, 1:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Butler, Colfax, Cuming and 19 more	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.