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Mesoscale Discussion 1231

June 4, 20034 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 4, 2003, 11:12 AM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 2003, 11:12 AM MDT (17:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2003, 1:15 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 23 counties

Baca County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lea County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Bailey County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Yoakum 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 94 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 674 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 213 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
Jun 3, 8:41 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano and 6 more	2 hr
Jun 4, 12:34 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca	116 min
Jun 4, 11:30 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bent, Crowley, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo	6 hr
Jun 4, 2:20 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baca, Bent, Crowley, Las Animas, Otero, Prowers and 1 more	6 hr
Jun 4, 2:27 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bent, Crowley, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo	93 min
Jun 4, 5:31 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Otero, Prowers, Pueblo	89 min
Jun 3, 6:50 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Curry, Harding, Lea, Quay, Roosevelt	55 min
Jun 3, 7:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bandera, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan and 38 more	6 hr
Jun 3, 8:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more	3 hr
Jun 3, 10:37 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet and 35 more	113 min
Jun 3, 11:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bexar, Brazos, Burleson and 23 more	5 hr
Jun 4, 1:52 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Austin, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Colorado, DeWitt and 12 more	83 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.