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Mesoscale Discussion 2068
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 3, 2003, 5:00 AM CDT for Scott County, Sebastian County, Arkansas; 50 counties in Kansas; 37 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2003, 5:00 AM CDT (10:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2003, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 89 counties
Scott County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie 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, Sedgwick County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Adair County, OK, Alfalfa County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant 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, Mayes County, OK, McClain 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, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:00 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 nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 2235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1791 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
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, 1:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian, Washington | 96 min |
| Aug 3, 2:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Scott, Sebastian | 5 hr |
| 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 |
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.