Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2007
Mesoscale Discussion 1679
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 7, 2007, 11:01 PM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 119 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2007, 11:01 PM CDT (04:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2007, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:01 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 2208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2410 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 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 7, 11:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Doniphan | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Leavenworth and 5 more | 87 min |
| Aug 8, 3:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Chase, Comanche, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 15 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha and 2 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2007Every mesoscale discussion in 2007
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.