Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2006
Mesoscale Discussion 1902
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 27, 2006, 1:20 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 2006, 1:20 PM MDT (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2006, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Morton County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Colfax County, NM, Harding County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 768 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 27, 5:29 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Las Animas and 5 more | 91 min |
| Aug 26, 8:46 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 6 more | 89 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2006Every mesoscale discussion in 2006
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.