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Mesoscale Discussion 2170

September 9, 200526 counties in Utah; Uinta County, Wyoming

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 9, 2005, 12:07 PM MDT for 26 counties in Utah; Uinta County, Wyoming. It was in force for 113 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 9, 2005, 12:07 PM MDT (18:07 UTC)
Expired
Sep 9, 2005, 2:00 PM MDT
In force
113 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties

Beaver County, UT, Cache County, UT, Carbon County, UT, Daggett County, UT, Davis County, UT, Duchesne County, UT, Emery County, UT, Garfield County, UT, Grand County, UT, Iron County, UT, Juab County, UT, Kane County, UT, Millard County, UT, Morgan County, UT, Piute County, UT, Rich County, UT, Salt Lake County, UT, San Juan County, UT, Sanpete County, UT, Sevier County, UT, Summit County, UT, Uintah County, UT, Utah County, UT, Wasatch County, UT, Wayne County, UT, Weber County, UT, Uinta County, WY

The radar

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 224 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:07 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 209 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2005-09-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 330 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2005-09-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 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
330 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1079 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.2

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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
Sep 9, 12:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCarbon, Davis, Duchesne, Emery, Garfield, Juab and 11 more7 hr
Sep 9, 2:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDaggett, Grand, San Juan, Uintah4 hr
Sep 9, 5:59 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarbon, Emery, Grand, San Juan, Uintah91 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Utah, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Wyoming, 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.