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Mesoscale Discussion 1257

June 8, 200327 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 8, 2003, 10:21 AM CDT for 27 counties in Texas. It was in force for 114 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 2003, 10:21 AM CDT (15:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2003, 12:15 PM CDT
In force: 114 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 27 counties

Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bell County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Madison County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Real County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Travis County, TX, Washington County, TX, Williamson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 271 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 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 7, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baylor, Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 23 more	6 hr
Jun 7, 9:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Irion, McCulloch and 8 more	115 min
Jun 7, 11:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coke, Coleman, Concho, Glasscock, Howard, McCulloch and 9 more	113 min
Jun 8, 12:51 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Archer, Baylor, Borden, Bosque, Brown and 62 more	54 min
Jun 8, 5:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio, Terrell	3 hr
Jun 8, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio, Reeves and 1 more	6 hr

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.