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Mesoscale Discussion 2074
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 25, 2005, 3:12 PM CDT for 14 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Oklahoma; Lipscomb County, Ochiltree County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 2005, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2005, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 1201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1043 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
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 24, 11:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 18 more | 58 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 24, 8:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Canadian, Custer, Dewey and 17 more | 67 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.