Alert archive / Colorado / Mesoscale Discussions in 2005
Mesoscale Discussion 1673
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 6, 2005, 12:03 PM MDT for 28 counties in Colorado; 5 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 87 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2005, 12:03 PM MDT (18:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2005, 1:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties
Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Bent County, CO, Boulder County, CO, Broomfield County, CO, Clear Creek County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Custer County, CO, Denver County, CO, Douglas County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Gilpin County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Jefferson County, CO, Larimer County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Otero County, CO, Park County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Teller County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Taos County, NM, Union County, NM
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:05 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -471 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1813 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 5, 8:57 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Logan, Phillips and 4 more | 93 min |
| Jul 6, 1:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Douglas, Elbert and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 6, 12:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lincoln | 84 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 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.