Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 1006
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2008, 3:35 PM CDT for 24 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 85 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2008, 3:35 PM CDT (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2008, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 2849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 8:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cheyenne and 65 more | 58 min |
| May 23, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 43 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 10:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 38 more | 57 min |
| May 24, 1:03 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Elk, Geary, Greenwood, Lyon and 4 more | 87 min |
| May 24, 1:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 17 more | 4 hr |
| May 24, 4:02 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Franklin, Linn, Miami | 58 min |
| May 24, 6:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jewell, Osborne, Republic, Washington | 117 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2008Every mesoscale discussion in 2008
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.