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Mesoscale Discussion 541

April 10, 200528 counties in Kansas; 6 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 10, 2005, 3:38 PM CDT for 28 counties in Kansas; 6 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 97 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 10, 2005, 3:38 PM CDT (20:38 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 2005, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 97 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 34 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Harper County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Trego County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Woods County, OK

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 41 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1736 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 1:39 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Clark, Comanche	66 min
Apr 10, 12:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 15 more	93 min
Apr 10, 1:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butler, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 19 more	113 min
Apr 10, 1:10 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Barber, Barton, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards, Ellis and 23 more	7 hr
Apr 10, 1:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 23 more	6 hr
Apr 10, 3:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 22 more	89 min
Apr 10, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Barber, Barton, Butler, Clay, Cloud, Cowley and 25 more	5 hr
Apr 10, 3:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Garvin, Grady, Jefferson and 12 more	54 min
Apr 10, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland and 23 more	6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2005 Every 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.