Alert archive / Missouri / Mesoscale Discussions in 2011

Mesoscale Discussion 1887

August 7, 201113 counties in Kansas; 30 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 7, 2011, 3:16 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; 30 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 119 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 7, 2011, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 2011, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
119 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties

Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Polk County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2011-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 185 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2011-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 190 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
185 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-540 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1321 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
190 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 10:48 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Atchison, Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 33 more117 min
Aug 7, 12:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtchison, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Leavenworth and 6 more5 hr
Aug 7, 2:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Comanche, Haskell, Meade, Seward, Stevens114 min
Aug 7, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBourbon, Crawford6 hr
Aug 7, 5:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 3 more115 min
Aug 7, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChautauqua, Cherokee, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho and 1 more5 hr
Aug 6, 8:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrew, Atchison, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Grundy and 8 more2 hr
Aug 6, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Chariton, Clark, Grundy, Knox, Lewis and 14 more5 hr
Aug 6, 11:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Clark, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Knox and 11 more114 min
Aug 7, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Franklin, Iron and 17 more6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.