Alert archive / Oklahoma / Mesoscale Discussions in 2013

Mesoscale Discussion 949

June 3, 201312 counties in Kansas; 19 counties in Oklahoma; 10 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 3, 2013, 6:58 PM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas; 19 counties in Oklahoma; 10 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 2013, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2013, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties

Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 172 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2013-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2013-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 285 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1829 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
285 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
422 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 2:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Comanche, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 7 more84 min
Jun 3, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 11 more8 hr
Jun 3, 5:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDecatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Lane, Ness and 10 more2 hr
Jun 2, 9:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrewster, Culberson, El Paso, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Loving and 2 more59 min
Jun 2, 10:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBailey, Brewster, Cochran, Gaines, Hale, Hockley and 7 more2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2013Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2013Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2013Every mesoscale discussion in 2013

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.