Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2005
Mesoscale Discussion 2085
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 26, 2005, 2:18 PM CDT for 20 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2005, 2:18 PM CDT (19:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2005, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 1425 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 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 25, 7:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman and 2 more | 83 min |
| Aug 25, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton, Phillips and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 25, 11:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 8 more | 92 min |
| Aug 26, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk, Greenwood, Labette and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 26, 6:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Garfield, Kingfisher and 3 more | 65 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.