Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2012
Mesoscale Discussion 1054
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 4, 2012, 2:59 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 91 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2012, 2:59 PM MDT (20:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2012, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 91 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 26 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Logan County, KS, Morton County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2396 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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 3, 6:47 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 7 more | 58 min |
| Jun 3, 8:46 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk | 59 min |
| Jun 4, 3:00 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt | 90 min |
| Jun 3, 7:03 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Ellis, Greer, Harmon, Harper and 3 more | 57 min |
| Jun 3, 9:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton and 14 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 10:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 14 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:51 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes and 9 more | 54 min |
| Jun 4, 2:39 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Sequoyah | 96 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2012Every mesoscale discussion in 2012
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.