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Mesoscale Discussion 73

January 12, 2005Anderson County, Linn County, Miami County, Kansas; 12 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 12, 2005, 6:50 PM CST for Anderson County, Linn County, Miami County, Kansas; 12 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 12, 2005, 6:50 PM CST (00:50 UTC)
Expired: Jan 12, 2005, 10:45 PM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Anderson County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Adair County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Ray County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Sullivan County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 294 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 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
Jan 12, 6:02 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Audrain, Barry, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden and 40 more	88 min
Jan 12, 9:28 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Iron and 18 more	32 min
Jan 12, 9:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Iron, Jefferson and 15 more	5 hr
Jan 12, 10:16 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dunklin	59 min
Jan 13, 1:02 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Madison, Perry, Scott and 2 more	88 min
Jan 13, 6:51 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Audrain, Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone and 51 more	4 hr
Jan 13, 11:58 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crawford, Franklin, Jefferson, Saint Charles, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Louis and 2 more	5 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.