Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2011
Mesoscale Discussion 1051
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 1, 2011, 1:55 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2011, 1:55 PM CDT (18:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2011, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 51 counties
Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Madison County, AR, Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chase County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Stone County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Craig County, OK, Ottawa County, OK
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 2267 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 13 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 4:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cloud, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton and 6 more | 34 min |
| Jun 1, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis and 23 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 1, 6:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Gove, Grant, Gray and 19 more | 53 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2011Every mesoscale discussion in 2011
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.