Alert archive / Kentucky / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 2076
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 4, 2003, 12:52 PM CDT for 50 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 113 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 2003, 12:52 PM CDT (17:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2003, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Adair County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Green County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, Mason County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owen County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:55 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 1724 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 755 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 4, 1:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Fulton, Graves and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fulton, Hickman | 6 hr |
| Aug 4, 5:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clark and 33 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Harlan, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry and 1 more | 5 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.