Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2006
Mesoscale Discussion 393
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 1, 2006, 4:08 PM CST for 18 counties in Kansas; 16 counties in Oklahoma; 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2006, 4:08 PM CST (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2006, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 52 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Donley County, TX, Foard County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 478 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 984 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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 1, 12:12 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell and 9 more | 93 min |
| Apr 1, 3:16 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 10 more | 89 min |
| Apr 1, 4:01 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Decatur, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham, Jewell and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 1, 5:37 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Dickinson, Elk and 9 more | 83 min |
| Apr 1, 1:07 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 1, 10:06 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 8 more | 114 min |
| Apr 1, 2:01 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer and 11 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 1, 3:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 7 hr |
| Mar 31, 10:21 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Borden, Crosby, Dickens, Garza and 6 more | 84 min |
| Apr 1, 2:21 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baylor, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Crosby, Dickens and 16 more | 84 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.