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Mesoscale Discussion 1168

June 4, 20054 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 4, 2005, 9:18 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 87 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 2005, 9:18 PM CDT (02:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2005, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 87 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 59 counties

Appanoose County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Fremont County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Page County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Miami County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Richardson County, NE

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 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.

Tornado Watch 399Jun 4, 10:45 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 3003 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1092 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 185 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.9
Supercell composite: 15.5

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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 4, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buena Vista and 43 more	7 hr
Jun 4, 7:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Cedar and 24 more	2 hr
Jun 4, 8:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Cedar and 27 more	8 hr
Jun 4, 10:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Cedar and 28 more	90 min
Jun 4, 10:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Appanoose, Decatur, Monroe, Page, Ringgold, Taylor and 1 more	52 min
Jun 4, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson, Harrison and 10 more	5 hr
Jun 5, 12:55 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Cedar and 22 more	95 min
Jun 5, 12:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allamakee, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton and 14 more	86 min
Jun 5, 12:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allamakee, Bremer, Butler, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette and 4 more	6 hr
Jun 5, 3:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allamakee, Bremer, Butler, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette and 4 more	84 min
Jun 5, 6:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allamakee, Bremer, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Howard and 2 more	53 min
Jun 4, 7:09 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho	96 min
Jun 4, 8:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk and 5 more	2 hr
Jun 4, 10:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Linn, Miami and 1 more	7 hr
Jun 4, 11:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Christian, Crawford, Dent, Douglas, Howell, Laclede and 9 more	63 min
Jun 5, 12:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Christian, Douglas, Howell, Ozark, Stone, Taney and 3 more	5 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 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.