Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2005
Mesoscale Discussion 2039
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 19, 2005, 9:01 PM CDT for 30 counties in Kansas; 6 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 2005, 9:01 PM CDT (02:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2005, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Atchison County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clark County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Buchanan County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Platte County, MO
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:03 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 2093 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1276 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.0
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 20, 12:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Labette, Montgomery and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 20, 2:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche | 114 min |
| Aug 20, 1:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Douglas, Dunklin and 15 more | 115 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.