Alert archive / Texas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 1186
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 1, 2003, 6:07 PM CDT for 56 counties in Texas. It was in force for 113 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2003, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 56 counties
Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Ector County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terry County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 1727 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
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 1, 2:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Crane, Deaf Smith and 14 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 2:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Irion, McCulloch and 8 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carson, Dallam, Gray, Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson and 7 more | 116 min |
| Jun 1, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 1, 5:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Wichita, Wilbarger | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2003Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.