Alert archive / Colorado / Mesoscale Discussions in 2007
Mesoscale Discussion 1666
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 6, 2007, 4:12 PM MDT for 14 counties in Colorado; 12 counties in Kansas; Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 93 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 2007, 4:12 PM MDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2007, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Douglas County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Teller County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 1:55 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan and 4 more | 95 min |
| Aug 5, 10:44 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jackson and 6 more | 91 min |
| Aug 6, 6:39 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Norton | 96 min |
| Aug 6, 10:08 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burt, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon, Dodge, Douglas and 2 more | 97 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2007Every 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.