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Mesoscale Discussion 1353

June 20, 200415 counties in Colorado; Laramie County, Wyoming

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 20, 2004, 12:48 PM MDT for 15 counties in Colorado; Laramie County, Wyoming. It was in force for 117 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 20, 2004, 12:48 PM MDT (18:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2004, 2:45 PM MDT
In force: 117 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Boulder County, CO, Broomfield County, CO, Clear Creek County, CO, Denver County, CO, Douglas County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Gilpin County, CO, Jefferson County, CO, Larimer County, CO, Park County, CO, Teller County, CO, Weld County, CO, Laramie County, WY

The radar

The Denver radar (KFTG), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 499Jun 20, 1:15 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 399 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -219 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 795 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 20, 1:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Broomfield, Cheyenne and 20 more	7 hr
Jun 20, 2:19 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Grand, Jackson, Larimer, Moffat, Routt	116 min
Jun 20, 5:08 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Broomfield, Cheyenne and 20 more	2 hr
Jun 20, 4:13 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Goshen, Laramie, Platte	3 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in Wyoming, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.