Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2005
Mesoscale Discussion 2344
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 19, 2005, 3:27 PM CDT for 25 counties in Kansas; Grant County, Kay County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 93 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 19, 2005, 3:27 PM CDT (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 19, 2005, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 93 min
- 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, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1863 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 12:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner | 95 min |
| Oct 19, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa, Pratt | 8 hr |
| Oct 19, 1:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stevens | 90 min |
| Oct 19, 2:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Harper, Kiowa | 83 min |
| Oct 19, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth and 22 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 19, 4:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Harper | 2 hr |
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.