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Mesoscale Discussion 154
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 5, 2008, 6:07 AM MST for 9 counties in Colorado; 67 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 5, 2008, 6:07 AM MST (13:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2008, 12:00 PM MST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 88 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Atchison County, KS, Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Morton County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Holt County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:09 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 284 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
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4, 10:58 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Costilla, Crowley, Custer and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 4:03 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 6 more | 117 min |
| Feb 5, 4:26 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay, Coffey and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 4, 5:20 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Barry, Barton, Benton, Boone, Callaway and 59 more | 85 min |
| Feb 4, 6:14 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Barry, Barton, Benton, Boone, Callaway and 41 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 4, 8:21 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dent, Howell and 16 more | 84 min |
| Feb 4, 8:44 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Callaway, Camden, Cedar, Cole, Crawford, Dade and 23 more | 91 min |
| Feb 5, 5:39 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Douglas, Howell, Oregon, Ozark, Stone, Taney | 3 hr |
| Feb 5, 5:45 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mississippi, New Madrid, Stoddard | 2 hr |
| Feb 5, 8:47 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid and 5 more | 88 min |
| Feb 5, 9:18 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Christian, McDonald, Newton, Stone | 87 min |
| Feb 5, 10:16 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Howell and 10 more | 89 min |
| Feb 5, 11:39 AM MST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Christian, Dent, Douglas, Howell, Oregon and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:09 PM MST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Iron and 12 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:17 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Douglas, Howell, Ozark, Taney, Texas | 88 min |
| Feb 5, 3:46 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jefferson, Saint Louis, Washington, City of Saint Louis | 119 min |
| Feb 5, 4:39 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Carter, Dunklin, New Madrid, Oregon and 5 more | 96 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.