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Mesoscale Discussion 2097

August 5, 20036 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 5, 2003, 3:19 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 116 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 5, 2003, 3:19 PM CDT (20:19 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2003, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 116 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 119 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2032 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -181 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1217 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 1:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Coffey and 20 more	115 min
Aug 5, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Cherokee, Coffey and 17 more	5 hr
Aug 5, 5:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Coffey, Crawford and 17 more	114 min
Aug 4, 8:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer and 13 more	64 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2003 Every 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.