Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2007
Mesoscale Discussion 313
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 22, 2007, 3:23 AM CDT for 34 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2007, 3:23 AM CDT (08:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2007, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barber County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:25 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 1474 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1236 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
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 21, 9:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Doniphan, Nemaha | 59 min |
| Mar 22, 12:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Jefferson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 53 min |
| Mar 22, 1:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 9 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.