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Mesoscale Discussion 2319

August 29, 20037 counties in Oklahoma; 5 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 29, 2003, 11:35 PM CDT for 7 counties in Oklahoma; 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 115 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 29, 2003, 11:35 PM CDT (04:35 UTC)
Expired: Aug 30, 2003, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 115 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Beckham County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Greer County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Washita County, OK, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 1335 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 998 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 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 30, 2:05 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 35 more	3 hr
Aug 30, 2:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche and 30 more	3 hr
Aug 30, 10:53 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Eastland, Fisher, Haskell and 10 more	3 hr
Aug 30, 6:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Comanche, Coryell, Erath, Hamilton and 10 more	3 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.