Alert archive / Oklahoma / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 2081
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 4, 2003, 4:40 PM CDT for Barber County, Clark County, Comanche County, Kansas; 16 counties in Oklahoma; 9 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 2003, 4:40 PM CDT (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 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 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 808 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -399 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1381 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 1:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 2:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Gove, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Lane and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 5:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Linn, Miami | 94 min |
| Aug 4, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 4, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.