Alert archive / Texas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 2125
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 8, 2003, 6:05 PM CDT for 42 counties in Texas. It was in force for 85 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2003, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 42 counties
Atascosa County, TX, Austin County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bee County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Comal County, TX, Concho County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Harris County, TX, Hays County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Medina County, TX, Menard County, TX, Real County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Travis County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Wharton County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 1111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1998 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -80 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 8, 3:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco and 37 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 6:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 10 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.