Alert archive / Texas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 1226
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 3, 2003, 11:37 PM CDT for 41 counties in Texas. It was in force for 113 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2003, 11:37 PM CDT (04:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2003, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Bandera County, TX, Bell County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comal County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hays County, TX, Hill County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, Maverick County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Medina County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mills County, TX, Real County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 3503 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2059 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.6
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 3, 7:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Callahan, Castro and 57 more | 55 min |
| Jun 3, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan and 38 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bexar, Brazos, Burleson and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 4, 1:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth and 23 more | 116 min |
| Jun 4, 2:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Colorado, DeWitt and 12 more | 83 min |
| Jun 4, 12:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bailey, Cochran, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham | 93 min |
| Jun 4, 6:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Cottle and 25 more | 89 min |
Nearby
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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.