Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2005
Mesoscale Discussion 2220
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 18, 2005, 4:13 AM CDT for 34 counties in Kansas; 21 counties in Missouri; Craig County, Nowata County, Ottawa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 92 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 18, 2005, 4:13 AM CDT (09:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2005, 5:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 58 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, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Craig County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Ottawa County, OK
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:15 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1573 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 314 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 12:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 22 more | 66 min |
| Sep 18, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 19 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 18, 4:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 18, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.