Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 74
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 4, 2004, 10:33 AM CST for 15 counties in Kansas; McDonald County, Newton County, Missouri; 15 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 4, 2004, 10:33 AM CST (16:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 4, 2004, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Allen County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Noble County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:32 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 2708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4, 3:58 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards, Ford and 9 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 4, 3:52 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Carter, Christian, Dent, Douglas, Greene and 15 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.