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Mesoscale Discussion 1360
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 20, 2004, 5:08 PM MDT for 26 counties in Colorado; 31 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 2004, 5:08 PM MDT (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2004, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 61 counties
Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Broomfield County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Denver County, CO, Douglas County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Las Animas 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, Weld County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Clark County, KS, Decatur 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, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 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 163 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
- 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
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 20, 12:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver and 9 more | 117 min |
| 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, 12:22 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny | 83 min |
| Jun 20, 4:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove and 25 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 20, 4:13 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel and 9 more | 3 hr |
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.