Alert archive / Colorado / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1076
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 3, 2004, 5:05 PM MDT for 17 counties in Colorado; 13 counties in Nebraska; Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2004, 5:05 PM MDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2004, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Otero County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Arthur County, NE, Banner County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Keith County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Oglala Lakota County, SD
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -546 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 1:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Bent, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Crowley and 21 more | 117 min |
| Jun 3, 2:05 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Bent, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 3, 3:29 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Box Butte, Cherry, Dawes, Hooker, Sheridan, Sioux | 91 min |
| Jun 3, 3:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cherry, Dawes, Garden and 7 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2004Every 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.