Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 760
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 1, 2008, 7:19 PM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas; Jefferson County, Thayer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 1, 2008, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2008, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Washington County, KS, Jefferson County, NE, Thayer County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 3122 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 7:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Coffey, Cowley and 17 more | 66 min |
| May 1, 8:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harper, Harvey, Kingman, McPherson, Marion, Reno and 2 more | 2 hr |
| May 1, 10:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 28 more | 116 min |
| May 1, 11:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 28 more | 91 min |
| May 2, 12:53 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 20 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.