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Mesoscale Discussion 716

May 16, 20046 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 16, 2004, 11:51 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 114 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 2004, 11:51 PM CDT (04:51 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 2004, 1:45 AM CDT
In force
114 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 148 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2004-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 695 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2004-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 182 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
695 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-190 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1746 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
375 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.6

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 8:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Marshall, Mitchell and 7 more83 min
May 16, 8:57 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gove, Grant and 18 more93 min
May 16, 9:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Jackson, Jewell, Marshall, Nemaha, Osborne and 4 more3 hr
May 17, 3:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Chase, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 54 more3 hr
May 17, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarton, Butler, Clark, Clay, Dickinson, Edwards and 40 more6 hr
May 17, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha and 2 more5 hr

Nearby

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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.