Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2009
Mesoscale Discussion 2268
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Dec 23, 2009, 10:31 AM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 89 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 23, 2009, 10:31 AM CST (16:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 23, 2009, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 60 counties
Benton County, AR, Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Clay County, MO, Dade County, MO, Henry County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:30 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 2:37 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Howard, Little River, Miller, Polk, Scott and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Dec 23, 1:59 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Miller | 7 hr |
| Dec 23, 5:21 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lafayette, Miller | 114 min |
| Dec 22, 11:32 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clark, Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Jewell and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 23, 6:44 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Republic, Washington | 4 hr |
| Dec 23, 12:18 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Creek and 17 more | 57 min |
| Dec 23, 1:03 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw | 57 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2009Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2009Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.