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Mesoscale Discussion 1143

June 8, 20046 counties in Colorado; 14 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 8, 2004, 3:31 PM MDT for 6 counties in Colorado; 14 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 119 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 2004, 3:31 PM MDT (21:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2004, 5:30 PM MDT
In force: 119 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 30 counties

Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 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: 484 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -515 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1473 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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
Jun 8, 2:22 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan and 4 more	83 min
Jun 8, 2:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Denver, Douglas and 13 more	5 hr
Jun 8, 5:02 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Elbert, El Paso, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 1 more	118 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.