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Mesoscale Discussion 2066

August 24, 200519 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 24, 2005, 6:16 PM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 89 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 24, 2005, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired: Aug 24, 2005, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 89 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 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 watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 743Aug 24, 8:50 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 1154 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 814 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 275 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.9

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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
Aug 23, 8:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Finney, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 10 more	2 hr
Aug 24, 2:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Harper	119 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.