Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 507
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 30, 2008, 11:20 PM CDT for 43 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2008, 11:20 PM CDT (04:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2008, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:23 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 436 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 8:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Cowley, Harper, Sedgwick, Sumner | 55 min |
| Mar 30, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 37 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 31, 1:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 32 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 5 more | 59 min |
| Mar 31, 4:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan | 3 hr |
| Mar 31, 4:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 45 more | 91 min |
| Mar 31, 5:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 31, 5:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Nemaha | 91 min |
| Mar 31, 6:17 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 15 more | 88 min |
| Mar 31, 7:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 7 more | 85 min |
| Mar 31, 8:44 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 31, 10:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 8 more | 60 min |
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.