Alert archive / Colorado / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1314
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 17, 2004, 12:38 PM MDT for 24 counties in Colorado; Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 2004, 12:38 PM MDT (18:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2004, 2:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Custer County, CO, Denver County, CO, Douglas County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Jefferson County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Teller County, CO, Washington County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Union County, NM
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:41 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 17, 1:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 2:01 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colfax, Curry, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt, Union | 89 min |
| Jun 17, 2:35 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 4 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 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.