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Mesoscale Discussion 1280
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 14, 2004, 9:32 PM MDT for 15 counties in Colorado; 46 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2004, 9:32 PM MDT (03:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2004, 11:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 69 counties
Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, 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, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:35 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 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 1361 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2935 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
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 14, 10:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Prowers | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 12:53 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield and 23 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 1:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 18 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 14, 7:21 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 33 more | 54 min |
| Jun 14, 8:52 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Douglas and 13 more | 113 min |
| Jun 14, 10:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas and 19 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 1:00 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Edwards, Ellis and 21 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:40 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:50 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Chase, Clay, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 15 more | 115 min |
| Jun 15, 6:07 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Franklin and 6 more | 83 min |
| Jun 15, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 12:17 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock and 1 more | 118 min |
| Jun 15, 2:35 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Knox, Pierce, Wayne | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 4:19 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Custer, Garfield and 12 more | 116 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.