Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 2371
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 10, 2003, 11:40 PM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Oklahoma; 9 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 10, 2003, 11:40 PM CDT (04:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2003, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ford County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:43 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 959 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2150 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cloud, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Norton and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 10, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 10, 11:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cloud, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne and 4 more | 115 min |
| Sep 11, 2:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Harper, Harvey, Kingman and 7 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 1:54 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Custer, Jackson, Kiowa, Washita | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 12:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Dallas and 20 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.