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Mesoscale Discussion 1301

June 22, 200622 counties in Colorado; Colfax County, Mora County, Taos County, New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 22, 2006, 11:46 AM MDT for 22 counties in Colorado; Colfax County, Mora County, Taos County, New Mexico. It was in force for 89 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 2006, 11:46 AM MDT (17:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2006, 1:15 PM MDT
In force: 89 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 25 counties

Adams County, CO, Alamosa County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Broomfield County, CO, Conejos 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, Huerfano County, CO, Jefferson County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Teller County, CO, Washington County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Mora County, NM, Taos County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:47 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, 5.8 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-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: 478 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -208 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1370 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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
Jun 21, 6:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma	6 hr
Jun 21, 8:09 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Elbert, El Paso, Kiowa and 4 more	2 hr
Jun 22, 12:21 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Douglas, Elbert and 9 more	7 hr
Jun 22, 3:29 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa and 5 more	91 min
Jun 22, 5:50 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 2 more	85 min
Jun 22, 1:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 4 more	9 hr
Jun 22, 4:45 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Curry, De Baca, Harding, Mora, Quay, Roosevelt and 2 more	90 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2006 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2006 Every mesoscale discussion in 2006

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.