Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 1328
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 11, 2008, 7:18 PM CDT for 29 counties in Kansas; Nuckolls County, Nebraska. It was in force for 87 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2008, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2008, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties
Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Washington County, KS, Nuckolls County, NE
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 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 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 2416 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1226 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.6
- Supercell composite
- 15.9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 8:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 29 more | 93 min |
| Jun 11, 9:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 24 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 11:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Chase, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Greenwood and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Butler, Chase, Coffey and 26 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson and 4 more | 113 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.