Alert archive / Colorado / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003

Mesoscale Discussion 2122

August 8, 20039 counties in Colorado; Colfax County, Harding County, Union County, New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 8, 2003, 1:26 PM MDT for 9 counties in Colorado; Colfax County, Harding County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 8, 2003, 1:26 PM MDT (19:26 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2003, 4:00 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Harding County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 296 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-284 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3001 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 5:37 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Prowers2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 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.