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Mesoscale Discussion 694
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 4, 2007, 10:28 PM MDT for 5 counties in Colorado; Cheyenne County, Sherman County, Wallace County, Kansas; 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 92 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 2007, 10:28 PM MDT (04:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2007, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Perkins County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:31 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 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1202 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 761 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 4, 7:29 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Phillips, Washington, Yuma | 91 min |
| May 4, 6:26 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton and 5 more | 7 hr |
| May 4, 7:06 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford and 6 more | 84 min |
| May 4, 8:41 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks and 2 more | 94 min |
| May 4, 9:34 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Marion, Marshall, Morris and 2 more | 56 min |
| May 4, 10:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth and 12 more | 95 min |
| May 5, 12:23 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth and 15 more | 67 min |
| May 5, 12:30 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Jewell, Lincoln and 10 more | 7 hr |
| May 5, 2:00 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Jewell and 12 more | 90 min |
| May 5, 5:59 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Republic, Washington | 61 min |
| May 5, 7:52 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Decatur and 40 more | 53 min |
| May 5, 8:51 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove and 21 more | 12 hr |
| May 5, 10:32 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Norton, Phillips, Smith | 88 min |
| May 5, 10:57 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Harper, Kingman and 3 more | 93 min |
| May 5, 11:15 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 16 more | 10 hr |
| May 5, 1:32 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Marshall, Morris and 5 more | 28 min |
| May 5, 1:42 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary and 15 more | 7 hr |
| May 5, 2:26 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 14 more | 94 min |
| May 5, 5:16 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Edwards and 14 more | 59 min |
| May 4, 7:49 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Cedar, Dixon, Knox, Madison, Pierce and 1 more | 56 min |
| May 4, 8:22 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Cedar, Knox, Pierce | 11 hr |
| May 5, 9:35 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Boyd, Brown, Burt, Cedar, Cherry and 13 more | 85 min |
| May 5, 9:55 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boyd, Brown, Cedar, Dakota, Dixon and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 12:01 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Holt, Knox and 2 more | 89 min |
| May 5, 12:45 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Box Butte, Cherry, Dawes, Deuel, Garden and 8 more | 2 hr |
| May 5, 3:09 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Holt, Keya Paha and 4 more | 96 min |
| May 5, 3:33 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boyd, Brown, Cedar, Cherry, Dakota and 8 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.