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Mesoscale Discussion 164

February 5, 20084 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 5, 2008, 5:26 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 5, 2008, 5:26 PM CST (23:26 UTC)
Expired: Feb 5, 2008, 10:30 PM CST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 49 counties

Page County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee 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, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Worth County, MO, Nemaha County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 312 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 325 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 259 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 4, 11:58 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman and 2 more	6 hr
Feb 5, 5:03 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 6 more	117 min
Feb 5, 7:07 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Barton, Brown, Cheyenne, Clay, Cloud and 61 more	6 hr
Feb 4, 6:20 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Audrain, Barry, Barton, Benton, Boone, Callaway and 59 more	85 min
Feb 4, 7:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Audrain, Barry, Barton, Benton, Boone, Callaway and 41 more	6 hr
Feb 4, 9:21 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dent, Howell and 16 more	84 min
Feb 4, 9:44 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Callaway, Camden, Cedar, Cole, Crawford, Dade and 23 more	91 min
Feb 5, 6:39 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Douglas, Howell, Oregon, Ozark, Stone, Taney	3 hr
Feb 5, 6:45 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Mississippi, New Madrid, Stoddard	2 hr
Feb 5, 9:47 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid and 5 more	88 min
Feb 5, 10:18 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barry, Christian, McDonald, Newton, Stone	87 min
Feb 5, 11:16 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Howell and 10 more	89 min
Feb 5, 12:39 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Barry, Christian, Dent, Douglas, Howell, Oregon and 7 more	7 hr
Feb 5, 3:09 PM CST	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Iron and 12 more	9 hr
Feb 5, 3:17 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Douglas, Howell, Ozark, Taney, Texas	88 min
Feb 5, 4:46 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jefferson, Saint Louis, Washington, City of Saint Louis	119 min
Feb 5, 5:39 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Carter, Dunklin, New Madrid, Oregon and 5 more	96 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2008 Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2008 Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2008 Every 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.