Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 649
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 17, 2008, 1:26 AM CDT for 42 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 94 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 17, 2008, 1:26 AM CDT (06:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2008, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 42 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clark County, KS, Clay County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gray County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ness County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 1646 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 10:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 21 more | 23 min |
| Apr 17, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Barton, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas, Edwards and 30 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 17, 3:11 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Chase, Dickinson, Douglas, Edwards, Ellsworth and 20 more | 94 min |
| Apr 17, 4:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Johnson, Labette and 4 more | 24 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.