Alert archive / Missouri / Mesoscale Discussions in 2009
Mesoscale Discussion 196
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 6, 2009, 9:17 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 118 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 2009, 9:17 PM CST (03:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2009, 11:15 PM CST
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 58 counties
Decatur County, IA, Page County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ray County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Thayer County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:19 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 2709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 12:44 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas and 13 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 7, 1:51 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Chase, Comanche, Dickinson, Douglas, Geary and 14 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 7, 2:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Barber, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Comanche and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 7, 5:57 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Butler, Chase, Coffey and 21 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2009Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2009Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.