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Mesoscale Discussion 1119

May 25, 20036 counties in Colorado

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 25, 2003, 3:50 PM MDT for 6 counties in Colorado. It was in force for 85 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2003, 3:50 PM MDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2003, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 85 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Crowley County, CO, Custer County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 226 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: 163 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -144 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 716 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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
May 24, 7:10 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 7 more	35 min
May 25, 1:04 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alamosa, Archuleta, Boulder, Broomfield, Chaffee, Clear Creek and 25 more	86 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.