Alert archive / Texas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004

Mesoscale Discussion 1063

June 2, 20045 counties in Oklahoma; 15 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 2, 2004, 7:11 PM CDT for 5 counties in Oklahoma; 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 94 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2004, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2004, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 94 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Cotton County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Childress County, TX, Clay County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Denton County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Jack County, TX, Montague County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1613 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 7:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Panola, Shelby and 1 more	92 min
Jun 2, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Jasper, Marion and 11 more	6 hr
Jun 2, 10:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Hardin, Houston, Jasper, Jefferson, Leon and 9 more	54 min
Jun 2, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Chambers, Galveston, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty and 4 more	6 hr
Jun 3, 1:28 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chambers, Galveston, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty and 4 more	92 min
Jun 3, 3:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar and 32 more	94 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2004 Every mesoscale discussion in 2004

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.