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Mesoscale Discussion 2365

October 29, 20055 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 29, 2005, 2:22 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 113 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Oct 29, 2005, 2:22 PM MDT (20:22 UTC)
Expired
Oct 29, 2005, 4:15 PM MDT
In force
113 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties

Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Logan County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Harding County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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 nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 238 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 12:00Z on 2005-10-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 12:00Z on 2005-10-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1978 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
8 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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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.