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Mesoscale Discussion 1013

June 5, 20074 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 5, 2007, 1:42 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 2007, 1:42 PM MDT (19:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2007, 3:15 PM MDT
In force: 93 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 21 counties

Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, Banner County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Fall River County, SD, Campbell County, WY, Converse County, WY, Crook County, WY, Goshen County, WY, Laramie County, WY, Niobrara County, WY, Platte County, WY, Weston County, WY

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 351Jun 5, 2:20 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 510 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 203 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 2:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 8 more	7 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Wyoming, 2007 Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2007 Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2007 Every mesoscale discussion in 2007

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.