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Mesoscale Discussion 1038

May 28, 20058 counties in Colorado; 25 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 28, 2005, 11:34 AM MDT for 8 counties in Colorado; 25 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 116 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 2005, 11:34 AM MDT (17:34 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2005, 1:30 PM MDT
In force: 116 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 48 counties

Arapahoe County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Washington County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:34 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2238 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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
May 28, 12:41 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arapahoe, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 10 more	2 hr
May 28, 1:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Las Animas and 5 more	7 hr
May 28, 3:28 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas and 3 more	92 min
May 28, 1:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 20 more	7 hr
May 28, 4:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Greeley and 13 more	5 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2005 Every mesoscale discussion in 2005

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.