Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2013

Mesoscale Discussion 962

June 4, 201335 counties in Kansas; 22 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 4, 2013, 11:39 PM CDT for 35 counties in Kansas; 22 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 2013, 11:39 PM CDT (04:39 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2013, 12:45 AM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 61 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ness County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Trego County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:42 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 82 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2013-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1441 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2013-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 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
1441 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-163 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
7.6

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
Jun 4, 7:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray and 18 more115 min
Jun 4, 9:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 30 more87 min
Jun 4, 9:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clark, Comanche and 29 more7 hr
Jun 5, 2:36 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCowley, Harper, Sedgwick, Sumner84 min
Jun 4, 7:30 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeaver, Beckham, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Dewey and 11 more2 hr
Jun 4, 10:19 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeaver, Texas86 min
Jun 5, 1:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDallam, Hartley, Oldham90 min
Jun 5, 2:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArmstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 29 more7 hr
Jun 5, 3:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 22 more94 min
Jun 5, 6:55 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArmstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 27 more2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2013Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2013Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2013Every mesoscale discussion in 2013

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.