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Mesoscale Discussion 1666

July 5, 20056 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 5, 2005, 8:57 PM MDT for 6 states. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 5, 2005, 8:57 PM MDT (02:57 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2005, 10:30 PM MDT
In force: 93 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 107 counties

Baca County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Logan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis 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, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush 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, Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Brown County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Garden County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Grant County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 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 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 3915 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 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
Jul 6, 12:03 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek and 22 more	87 min
Jul 6, 1:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Douglas, Elbert and 8 more	8 hr
Jul 5, 6:13 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden and 5 more	2 hr
Jul 6, 12:51 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lincoln	84 min
Jul 6, 1:15 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd and 12 more	4 hr
Jul 6, 1:16 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Cottle, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens, Fisher and 16 more	29 min
Jul 6, 3:44 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd and 13 more	61 min
Jul 6, 12:23 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco and 52 more	2 hr
Jul 6, 3:51 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Carson, Castro and 28 more	84 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.