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Mesoscale Discussion 2356

September 9, 200311 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 31 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 9, 2003, 5:10 PM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 31 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Sep 9, 2003, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired: Sep 9, 2003, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 44 counties

Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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 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
Sep 9, 2:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Grant, Haskell, Meade, Seward, Stevens	119 min
Sep 9, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 5 more	5 hr
Sep 9, 5:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Lane, Logan and 12 more	5 hr
Sep 9, 5:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Sherman	95 min
Sep 9, 3:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Crane, Culberson, Ector, Loving, Pecos and 3 more	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.