Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 833
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 9, 2008, 12:33 AM CDT for 14 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 87 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 2008, 12:33 AM CDT (05:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2008, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Allen County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Kay County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:34 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -321 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1452 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 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 8, 7:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 25 more | 56 min |
| May 8, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 18 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford | 3 hr |
| May 9, 1:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne | 3 hr |
| May 9, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 3:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas and 1 more | 118 min |
| May 9, 6:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman and 2 more | 118 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.