Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 700
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 23, 2008, 12:13 PM CDT for 46 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 92 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 2008, 12:13 PM CDT (17:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2008, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barton County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:12 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 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 939 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 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 23, 9:20 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Cowley, Dickinson and 32 more | 85 min |
| 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, 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 |
| Apr 23, 4:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Gentry, Nodaway | 2 hr |
| Apr 23, 4:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Gentry, Nodaway | 116 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.