Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 973
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 22, 2008, 4:02 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2008, 4:02 PM CDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2008, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 77 counties
Barber County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Childress County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 1191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -320 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1232 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 21, 7:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stanton and 1 more | 118 min |
| May 22, 3:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson and 12 more | 97 min |
| May 22, 1:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Finney, Ford and 16 more | 61 min |
| May 22, 1:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards and 33 more | 10 hr |
| May 22, 6:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur and 35 more | 59 min |
| May 21, 8:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Kimball and 3 more | 65 min |
| May 21, 10:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff | 25 min |
| May 22, 12:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kimball | 9 hr |
| May 22, 2:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Deuel, Frontier and 9 more | 61 min |
| May 22, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chase, Deuel, Frontier, Hayes, Keith, Lincoln and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Blaine, Box Butte, Brown, Cherry and 15 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche and 15 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 5:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha, Sequoyah | 57 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.