Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2005
Mesoscale Discussion 2270
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 24, 2005, 4:57 PM MDT for 5 counties in Colorado; 21 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 93 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 24, 2005, 4:57 PM MDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2005, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Morton County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 287 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
- 583 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1246 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 12:03 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Knox, Wayne | 57 min |
| Sep 24, 2:26 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cedar, Colfax and 25 more | 94 min |
| Sep 24, 2:55 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Buffalo, Burt, Butler and 30 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.