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Mesoscale Discussion 2511

November 17, 20039 counties in Arkansas; 4 parishes in Louisiana; 19 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Nov 17, 2003, 7:48 PM CST for 9 counties in Arkansas; 4 parishes in Louisiana; 19 counties in Texas. It was in force for 87 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 17, 2003, 7:48 PM CST (01:48 UTC)
Expired: Nov 17, 2003, 9:15 PM CST
In force: 87 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 32 counties

Calhoun County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Union County, AR, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Anderson County, TX, Angelina County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Houston County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Panola County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Upshur County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:49 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 watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

Tornado Watch 954Nov 17, 9:25 PM CST

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 64 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: 512 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 515 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 231 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 284 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 3.6

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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
Nov 18, 1:29 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Clay, Cleveland, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 21 more	3 hr
Nov 18, 1:55 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clay and 34 more	6 hr
Nov 18, 9:55 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford and 22 more	65 min
Nov 18, 10:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Calhoun, Clark, Conway, Crawford, Dallas and 24 more	5 hr
Nov 18, 1:11 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Clark, Conway, Crawford, Dallas, Franklin and 22 more	2 hr
Nov 18, 2:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun and 38 more	5 hr
Nov 18, 4:44 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun and 34 more	2 hr
Nov 17, 8:10 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beauregard, Calcasieu, Natchitoches, Sabine, Vernon	95 min
Nov 17, 9:25 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, De Soto and 12 more	7 hr
Nov 17, 10:53 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beauregard, Calcasieu	97 min
Nov 17, 11:44 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bienville, Bossier, Caldwell, Claiborne, De Soto, Grant and 11 more	91 min
Nov 17, 11:50 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline and 2 more	5 hr
Nov 18, 2:08 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, East Baton Rouge and 25 more	97 min
Nov 18, 2:25 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard and 32 more	6 hr
Nov 18, 4:48 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ascension, Assumption, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville and 17 more	117 min
Nov 18, 6:08 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ascension, Jefferson, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans, Plaquemines and 8 more	2 hr
Nov 18, 6:55 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, Jefferson, Lafourche, Livingston and 11 more	5 hr
Nov 18, 10:30 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Saint Bernard	90 min
Nov 17, 6:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Austin, Brazoria, Colorado, Fort Bend, Grimes, Harris and 12 more	5 hr

Nearby

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