Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 982
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 23, 2008, 4:22 AM CDT for 27 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2008, 4:22 AM CDT (09:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2008, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson 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), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:25 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 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 2192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1576 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 17.0
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 22, 8:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cheyenne and 61 more | 29 min |
| May 22, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 44 more | 8 hr |
| May 22, 11:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 45 more | 62 min |
| May 23, 2:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 36 more | 89 min |
| May 23, 9:53 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Cheyenne, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 33 more | 67 min |
| May 23, 1:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Gove, Grant, Gray and 12 more | 2 hr |
| May 23, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur and 33 more | 7 hr |
| May 23, 6:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur and 33 more | 57 min |
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.