Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 1577
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 26, 2008, 8:00 PM CDT for 34 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 90 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2008, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2008, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 1885 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2766 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 19 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 26, 10:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Lincoln, Mitchell, Osborne, Ottawa and 1 more | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 3:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 11 more | 114 min |
| Jun 27, 3:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Chautauqua, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:20 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Labette | 55 min |
| Jun 27, 1:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 42 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 28 more | 4 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.