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Mesoscale Discussion 494
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 5, 2005, 6:50 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 5, 2005, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2005, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 87 counties
Benton County, AR, Washington County, AR, Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Brown County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Miami County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Smith County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Clay County, MO, Dade County, MO, Henry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Platte County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Jefferson County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -554 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 702 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Little River, Polk, Scott, Sebastian, Sevier | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington | 95 min |
| Apr 5, 11:02 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis and 33 more | 118 min |
| Apr 5, 1:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Montgomery | 92 min |
| Apr 5, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Cowley, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 29 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 5:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Delaware and 13 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.