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Mesoscale Discussion 1619
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 3, 2005, 12:36 PM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado; 19 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 84 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2005, 12:36 PM MDT (18:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2005, 2:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 84 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Harper County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 815 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -321 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1468 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 11:45 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 8 hr |
| Jul 3, 12:02 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arapahoe, Crowley, Custer, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso and 8 more | 88 min |
| Jul 3, 1:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 6 hr |
| Jul 3, 4:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 113 min |
| Jul 3, 3:32 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Edwards, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa and 4 more | 118 min |
| Jul 3, 6:39 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham and 19 more | 66 min |
| Jul 3, 6:45 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 3, 11:11 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 15 more | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 4:02 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Coffey and 14 more | 118 min |
| Jul 3, 4:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 3, 5:07 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, McPherson and 5 more | 53 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2005Every 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.