Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2006
Mesoscale Discussion 357
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 30, 2006, 2:58 AM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2006, 2:58 AM CST (08:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2006, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 56 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:58 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1878 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 367 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 3:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 7:07 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 14 more | 113 min |
| Mar 30, 7:29 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Doniphan | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 8:42 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Brown and 56 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 30, 9:42 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 23 more | 93 min |
| Mar 30, 11:47 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary, Harvey and 15 more | 88 min |
| Mar 30, 1:22 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn and 2 more | 113 min |
| Mar 30, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Doniphan, Johnson and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:12 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 35 more | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 5:39 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Chautauqua, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:03 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burt, Cedar, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon, Dodge and 5 more | 117 min |
| Mar 29, 11:16 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 27 more | 119 min |
| Mar 30, 11:08 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 24 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:33 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche and 17 more | 117 min |
| Mar 30, 2:46 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Garvin and 15 more | 119 min |
| Mar 30, 5:10 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell and 13 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 1:36 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Clay, Cooke, Denton, Jack, Montague and 8 more | 114 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.