Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2005
Mesoscale Discussion 14
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 2, 2005, 11:21 PM CST for 42 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Missouri; 16 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 2, 2005, 11:21 PM CST (05:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2005, 3:45 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 65 counties
Atchison County, KS, Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Clinton County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Holt County, MO, Platte County, MO, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin 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 Topeka radar (KTWX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:21 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 330 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 7:02 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Barber, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clark and 62 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 3, 6:41 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Marshall, Morris and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 3, 11:53 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.