Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 697
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 23, 2008, 9:20 AM CDT for 38 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 85 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 2008, 9:20 AM CDT (14:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2008, 10:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey 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, Morris County, KS, Ness 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, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:23 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 1038 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
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 23, 9:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 9:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cloud and 38 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 12:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 40 more | 92 min |
| Apr 23, 2:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler and 58 more | 53 min |
| Apr 23, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 7 more | 4 hr |
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.