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Mesoscale Discussion 1194

June 1, 200311 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 1, 2003, 11:18 PM CDT for 11 counties in Texas. It was in force for 87 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2003, 11:18 PM CDT (04:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2003, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 87 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Borden County, TX, Crane County, TX, Ector County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:18 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 10 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: 1772 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 8.9

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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
Jun 1, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Cooke and 19 more	7 hr
Jun 1, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Cochran, Crane, Crosby and 24 more	5 hr
Jun 1, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coke and 51 more	5 hr
Jun 1, 9:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baylor, Knox, Wichita, Wilbarger	95 min
Jun 1, 9:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Crane, Crosby, Dawson, Ector and 18 more	116 min
Jun 1, 10:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Eastland and 8 more	59 min
Jun 1, 11:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Comanche, Concho, Coryell, Erath and 16 more	2 hr
Jun 2, 1:42 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Coleman, Comanche and 28 more	63 min
Jun 2, 11:35 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Blanco, Burleson, Burnet, Cherokee and 34 more	2 hr
Jun 2, 12:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown and 39 more	6 hr
Jun 2, 2:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet and 35 more	117 min
Jun 2, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco and 37 more	5 hr
Jun 2, 5:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar and 35 more	62 min
Jun 2, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham	5 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.