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Mesoscale Discussion 875

May 24, 200415 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2004, 5:40 PM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 95 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2004, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 95 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Allen County, KS, Bourbon 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, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 2885 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -156 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 914 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 8.8

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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 24, 9:30 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chase and 27 more	2 hr
May 24, 12:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 26 more	83 min
May 24, 1:10 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 27 more	9 hr
May 24, 3:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 28 more	92 min
May 24, 3:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butler, Cowley, Greenwood, Sedgwick, Sumner	93 min
May 24, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 16 more	6 hr
May 24, 5:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic and 1 more	94 min
May 24, 6:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 31 more	48 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.