Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2007
Mesoscale Discussion 2068
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 12, 2007, 10:06 PM CDT for 35 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 114 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 12, 2007, 10:06 PM CDT (03:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2007, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Barton County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osage County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Smith County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Thayer County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:08 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1392 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 303 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 4:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa and 4 more | 55 min |
| Oct 13, 2:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Garden, Kimball, Morrill and 1 more | 97 min |
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.