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Mesoscale Discussion 2079

August 25, 20055 counties in Colorado; 8 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 25, 2005, 6:37 PM MDT for 5 counties in Colorado; 8 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 83 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 25, 2005, 6:37 PM MDT (00:37 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 2005, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
83 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties

Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Arthur County, NE, Chase County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 139 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2005-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 47 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2005-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
47 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-199 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2432 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 7:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDecatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton, Phillips and 6 more6 hr
Aug 25, 10:28 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDecatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 8 more92 min
Aug 26, 1:18 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 14 more2 hr
Aug 26, 3:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk, Greenwood, Labette and 4 more6 hr
Aug 25, 7:06 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Boyd, Brown, Holt, Keya Paha, Knox and 1 more54 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2005Mesoscale 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.