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Mesoscale Discussion 2223
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 22, 2003, 3:24 PM CDT for 37 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 2003, 3:24 PM CDT (20:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2003, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Brown County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Irion County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mills County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Real County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX, Val Verde County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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.