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Mesoscale Discussion 1034

May 25, 200837 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Missouri; Nemaha County, Richardson County, Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 25, 2008, 8:07 PM CDT for 37 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Missouri; Nemaha County, Richardson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 113 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 2008, 8:07 PM CDT (01:07 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2008, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
113 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 54 counties

Atchison County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Nemaha County, NE, Richardson County, NE

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 118 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2008-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1985 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2008-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1985 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1499 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 32 more3 hr
May 25, 9:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Pratt2 hr
May 25, 11:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 15 more6 hr
May 26, 12:10 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 10 more95 min
May 26, 2:42 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee, Crawford, Labette93 min
May 26, 1:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford and 14 more59 min
May 26, 1:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 29 more6 hr
May 26, 3:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth and 19 more96 min
May 26, 6:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 26 more2 hr
May 25, 7:54 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Scotland6 hr
May 25, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCFranklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike, Saint Charles and 6 more4 hr
May 25, 10:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid and 4 more117 min
May 25, 11:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Scotland62 min
May 26, 12:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCPemiscot65 min
May 26, 5:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDunklin, Pemiscot3 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.