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Mesoscale Discussion 2328

August 31, 20035 parishes in Louisiana; 9 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 31, 2003, 12:12 PM CDT for 5 parishes in Louisiana; 9 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 31, 2003, 12:12 PM CDT (17:12 UTC)
Expired: Aug 31, 2003, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Allen Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Angelina County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX, Polk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Tyler County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 96 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: 659 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 692 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 4.0

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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 31, 10:11 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Brazos, Chambers, Cherokee, Grimes, Hardin and 15 more	5 hr
Aug 31, 6:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Jack, Montague, Palo Pinto	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in Louisiana, 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.