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Mesoscale Discussion 2067
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 3, 2003, 1:39 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 96 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2003, 1:39 AM CDT (06:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2003, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 96 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 125 counties
Benton County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Clark County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Franklin County, NE, Webster County, NE, Adair County, OK, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:41 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 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 322 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2061 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Scott, Sebastian | 5 hr |
| Aug 3, 5:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Scott, Sebastian | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 9:54 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 40 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay | 6 hr |
| Aug 3, 5:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Fulton, Marion | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 5:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Kimball, Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 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.