Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2005
Mesoscale Discussion 1121
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 2, 2005, 11:53 AM CDT for 28 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2005, 11:53 AM CDT (16:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2005, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Craig County, OK, Kay County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:54 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 545 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 878 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 435 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards, Ellis and 25 more | 35 min |
| Jun 2, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche and 40 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Edwards and 32 more | 93 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2005Every mesoscale discussion in 2005
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.