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Mesoscale Discussion 918

May 29, 200722 counties in Colorado; Chase County, Dundy County, Perkins County, Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 29, 2007, 12:12 PM MDT for 22 counties in Colorado; Chase County, Dundy County, Perkins County, Nebraska. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 2007, 12:12 PM MDT (18:12 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 2007, 1:45 PM MDT
In force
93 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties

Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Bent County, CO, Broomfield County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Denver County, CO, Douglas County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Jefferson County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Otero County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Perkins County, NE

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 88 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2007-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 18 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2007-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -86 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-196 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1497 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 12:29 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso and 9 more8 hr
May 29, 2:52 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Bent, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Crowley and 16 more53 min
May 29, 4:34 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, El Paso, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Yuma3 hr
May 29, 5:08 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Huerfano, Kiowa and 4 more4 hr
May 29, 5:40 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Huerfano, Kiowa and 7 more95 min
May 28, 8:03 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHayes87 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.