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Mesoscale Discussion 1331
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 11, 2003, 4:33 PM MDT for 7 counties in Colorado; 30 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 87 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2003, 4:33 PM MDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2003, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties
Baca County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 1226 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 971 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
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 11, 1:06 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 114 min |
| Jun 11, 4:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 1:40 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Custer, Grant and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 11, 3:58 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Custer, Grant and 7 more | 92 min |
| Jun 11, 5:04 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Garfield, Greeley, Holt and 12 more | 86 min |
| Jun 11, 5:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boyd, Cedar, Garfield, Holt, Knox and 5 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.