Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 2231
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 8, 2008, 5:17 AM CDT for 17 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Missouri; Richardson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 8, 2008, 5:17 AM CDT (10:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2008, 7:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Richardson County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:18 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 1250 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 9:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Graham, Jewell and 12 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Logan and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 7, 11:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 16 more | 91 min |
| Sep 8, 1:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Camden, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dallas and 28 more | 83 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.