Alert archive / California / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003

Mesoscale Discussion 1138

May 29, 200313 counties in California; 4 counties in Nevada

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 29, 2003, 1:41 PM PDT for 13 counties in California; 4 counties in Nevada. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 29, 2003, 1:41 PM PDT (20:41 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2003, 4:15 PM PDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Alpine County, CA, Butte County, CA, El Dorado County, CA, Lassen County, CA, Modoc County, CA, Nevada County, CA, Placer County, CA, Plumas County, CA, Shasta County, CA, Sierra County, CA, Siskiyou County, CA, Tehama County, CA, Yuba County, CA, Douglas County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Storey County, NV, Washoe County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 438May 29, 5:30 PM PDT

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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 4:55 PM PDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama and 1 more	95 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in California, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in Nevada, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.