Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2009
Mesoscale Discussion 199
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 7, 2009, 5:57 PM CST for 27 counties in Kansas; Woods County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 2009, 5:57 PM CST (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2009, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Woods County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -490 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1287 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 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 6, 9:17 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Geary and 14 more | 118 min |
| 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 |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2009Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.