Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2019
Mesoscale Discussion 1998
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 21, 2019, 7:25 PM CDT for 26 counties in Kansas; Atchison County, Missouri; 10 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 21, 2019, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2019, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Washington County, KS, Atchison County, MO, Fillmore County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Thayer County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 1644 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1801 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 10:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Lane and 14 more | 118 min |
| Sep 21, 7:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Nodaway | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2019Every mesoscale discussion in 2019
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.