Alert archive / Colorado / Mesoscale Discussions in 2006
Mesoscale Discussion 941
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 22, 2006, 4:58 PM MDT for 23 counties in Colorado; Los Alamos County, Rio Arriba County, Sandoval County, New Mexico; Grand County, Uintah County, Utah. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2006, 4:58 PM MDT (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2006, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Alamosa County, CO, Archuleta County, CO, Chaffee County, CO, Conejos County, CO, Delta County, CO, Eagle County, CO, Garfield County, CO, Gunnison County, CO, Hinsdale County, CO, La Plata County, CO, Lake County, CO, Mesa County, CO, Mineral County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Montrose County, CO, Ouray County, CO, Pitkin County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Routt County, CO, Saguache County, CO, San Juan County, CO, San Miguel County, CO, Los Alamos County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Grand County, UT, Uintah County, UT
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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 nearest sounding before it
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3044 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 12:40 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamosa, Archuleta, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Delta and 18 more | 2 hr |
| May 22, 1:59 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crowley, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo | 2 hr |
| May 22, 2:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Costilla, Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano and 4 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 2:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 3 more | 117 min |
| May 22, 4:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Clear Creek and 17 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Utah, 2006Every 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.