Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 825
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 22, 2004, 3:52 PM CDT for 26 counties in Kansas; Alfalfa County, Harper County, Woods County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 83 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2004, 3:52 PM CDT (20:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2004, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 83 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Harper County, OK, Woods County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 308 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
- 482 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -493 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 402 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 422 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Republic and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 21, 8:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Edwards, Ellis, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman and 8 more | 95 min |
| May 21, 10:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Republic and 2 more | 89 min |
| May 22, 1:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne | 2 hr |
| May 22, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 6 hr |
| May 22, 3:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne | 86 min |
| May 22, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 13 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.