Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 1544
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 23, 2008, 11:40 PM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas; 11 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 2008, 11:40 PM CDT (04:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2008, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Smith County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Adams County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:43 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 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 1839 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1349 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
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 23, 7:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 9 more | 55 min |
| Jun 24, 2:02 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Nemaha | 88 min |
| Jun 24, 6:03 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 117 min |
| Jun 24, 3:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Leavenworth and 5 more | 60 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.