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Mesoscale Discussion 400
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 2, 2006, 9:41 AM CDT for 24 counties in Kansas; 30 counties in Missouri; 9 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2006, 9:41 AM CDT (14:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2006, 11:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 63 counties
Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Miami County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Worth County, MO, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Thayer County, NE
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:43 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -267 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 407 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 468 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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, 6:24 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Chase, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 1, 7:38 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Marshall, Morris, Nemaha and 7 more | 97 min |
| Apr 1, 7:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Marshall, Morris and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 1, 10:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood, Labette, Montgomery and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 1, 11:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 4 hr |
| Apr 2, 12:44 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 1:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 4 hr |
| Apr 2, 1:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Camden, Christian, Dallas, Dent, Douglas, Greene and 14 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 2, 10:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Carter, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid and 5 more | 93 min |
| Apr 2, 11:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Barry, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden and 32 more | 116 min |
| Apr 2, 12:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden and 58 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Carter and 44 more | 89 min |
| Apr 2, 3:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 7 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Iron, Jefferson and 16 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.