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Mesoscale Discussion 1041

May 28, 20054 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 28, 2005, 3:28 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 92 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 2005, 3:28 PM MDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2005, 5:00 PM MDT
In force: 92 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 31 counties

Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Morton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Colfax County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 341May 28, 4:00 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 224 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: 1994 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 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, 11:34 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Phillips and 2 more	116 min
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, 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
May 27, 7:08 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Lincoln and 4 more	97 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 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.