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Mesoscale Discussion 1086

May 23, 20034 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 23, 2003, 4:32 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 88 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2003, 4:32 PM MDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2003, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 88 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 28 counties

Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Curry County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Andrews County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1034 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -401 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 889 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 199 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 11:41 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crowley, Elbert, El Paso, Las Animas, Lincoln, Otero and 1 more	3 hr
May 23, 1:54 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Logan, Morgan, Phillips and 4 more	2 hr
May 23, 1:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 2 more	5 hr
May 23, 2:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso and 5 more	5 hr
May 23, 4:54 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso and 5 more	96 min
May 23, 1:22 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaver, Beckham, Ellis, Roger Mills	113 min
May 23, 5:25 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Canadian, Cleveland, Garfield, Garvin and 14 more	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2003 Every mesoscale discussion in 2003

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.