Alert archive / Kentucky / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 134
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 22, 2003, 3:31 PM EST for 7 states. It was in force for 119 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2003, 3:31 PM EST (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2003, 5:30 PM EST
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 106 counties
Catoosa County, GA, Murray County, GA, Walker County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Cherokee County, NC, Graham County, NC, Madison County, NC, Swain County, NC, Adams County, OH, Athens County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Anderson County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Polk County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Union County, TN, Washington County, TN, Buchanan County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Wise County, VA, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Roane County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 241 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 7:18 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 20 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 22, 12:14 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Fannin, Floyd and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 22, 12:40 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Bibb, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Crawford and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 22, 3:47 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa and 44 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 22, 4:35 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 41 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 22, 4:51 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Bibb, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Crawford and 21 more | 114 min |
| Feb 22, 6:19 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atkinson, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb and 79 more | 56 min |
| Feb 22, 6:50 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Barrow and 97 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 22, 10:14 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker, Whitfield | 2 hr |
| Feb 22, 10:59 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Charlton and 12 more | 61 min |
| Feb 22, 11:35 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 22, 11:55 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Charlton, Chatham and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 22, 1:33 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catoosa, Colquitt, Dade, Lee, Murray, Schley and 3 more | 117 min |
| Feb 22, 1:49 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Camden, Chatham, Glynn, McIntosh | 116 min |
| Feb 22, 4:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Boyd, Floyd, Harlan, Johnson, Knott and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 22, 9:27 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Cabarrus, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham and 17 more | 63 min |
| Feb 22, 9:45 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bertie, Bladen, Cabarrus, Caswell and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 22, 11:47 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Camden, Chowan, Columbus and 33 more | 88 min |
| Feb 22, 2:22 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bertie, Bladen, Columbus, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates and 8 more | 53 min |
| Feb 22, 2:40 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Camden, Carteret, Chowan and 24 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 22, 4:31 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Currituck, Jones, Pender, Washington | 89 min |
| Feb 22, 6:09 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Camden, Carteret, Chowan and 24 more | 66 min |
| Feb 22, 10:34 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Paulding, Van Wert, Williams | 5 hr |
| Feb 22, 12:55 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Isle of Wight, James City, Northampton and 19 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, 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.