Alert archive / Oklahoma / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 2619
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Dec 22, 2003, 2:40 PM CST for 4 counties in Arkansas; 25 counties in Oklahoma; 8 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 22, 2003, 2:40 PM CST (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 22, 2003, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Benton County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Delta County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Red River County, TX, Titus County, TX
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 906 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 22, 3:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Hempstead, Howard and 12 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 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.