Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 2086
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 14, 2008, 3:26 AM CDT for 25 counties in Kansas; Grant County, Kay County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 94 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2008, 3:26 AM CDT (08:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2008, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:27 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 722 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 2:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Edwards, Ellsworth, Kingman, Lincoln, McPherson and 7 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 12:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 22 more | 88 min |
| Aug 14, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Meade and 4 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 14, 6:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Meade and 4 more | 90 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.