Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2009
Mesoscale Discussion 1107
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 13, 2009, 11:59 PM CDT for 26 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 91 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2009, 11:59 PM CDT (04:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2009, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 91 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Barton County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:59 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -403 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Finney, Ford, Gove, Grant and 15 more | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 10:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards, Ford and 14 more | 57 min |
| Jun 14, 1:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 13 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 13 more | 84 min |
| Jun 14, 1:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton and 4 more | 85 min |
| Jun 14, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 30 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant and 14 more | 117 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2009Every mesoscale discussion in 2009
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.