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Mesoscale Discussion 1133

June 3, 20054 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 3, 2005, 2:13 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 92 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 2005, 2:13 AM CDT (07:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2005, 3:45 AM CDT
In force: 92 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 44 counties

Fremont County, IA, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Smith County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Atchison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Adams County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Seward County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 64 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -243 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1397 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 184 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 613 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 725 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.0

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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
Jun 2, 7:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Butler, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche and 48 more	91 min
Jun 2, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln and 13 more	6 hr
Jun 3, 6:45 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Harper, Sumner	90 min
Jun 3, 10:19 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Harper and 4 more	116 min
Jun 3, 12:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 21 more	54 min
Jun 3, 4:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Labette and 3 more	2 hr
Jun 3, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 27 more	4 hr
Jun 3, 6:09 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Finney, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman and 5 more	96 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2005 Every 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.