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Mesoscale Discussion 1081

May 23, 20037 counties in Colorado; Colfax County, Harding County, Union County, New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 23, 2003, 11:41 AM MDT for 7 counties in Colorado; Colfax County, Harding County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2003, 11:41 AM MDT (17:41 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2003, 2:15 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Crowley County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Harding County, NM, Union County, NM

The watches that followed

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

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 303 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: 24 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -367 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 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.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 1:54 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Logan, Morgan, Phillips and 4 more	2 hr
May 23, 1:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 2 more	5 hr
May 23, 2:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso and 5 more	5 hr
May 23, 4:32 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 2 more	88 min
May 23, 4:54 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso and 5 more	96 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 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.