Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2005
Mesoscale Discussion 2069
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 24, 2005, 11:17 PM CDT for 24 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2005, 11:17 PM CDT (04:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2005, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:17 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 nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 270 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 920 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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 24, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 24, 10:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Linn | 67 min |
| Aug 25, 12:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 22 more | 91 min |
| Aug 25, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Sherman | 7 hr |
| Aug 25, 3:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Gray and 8 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.