Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2005
Mesoscale Discussion 2033
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 19, 2005, 2:52 PM CDT for 39 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 2005, 2:52 PM CDT (19:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2005, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Geary County, KS, Graham County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee 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, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 1390 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1756 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 8:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 18, 11:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson and 7 more | 60 min |
| Aug 19, 10:55 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis and 23 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 1:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jackson and 11 more | 115 min |
| Aug 19, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 49 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 19, 5:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 39 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
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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.