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Mesoscale Discussion 1108

June 14, 2009Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado; 19 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 14, 2009, 1:51 AM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado; 19 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 84 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 2009, 1:51 AM MDT (07:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2009, 3:15 AM MDT
In force
84 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties

Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:50 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 19 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2009-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 66 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2009-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
66 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-403 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1651 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
254 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.7

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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
Jun 13, 6:42 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 10 more63 min
Jun 13, 6:46 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers59 min
Jun 14, 12:03 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBaca, Prowers3 hr
Jun 14, 12:05 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero and 2 more85 min
Jun 14, 1:06 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 4 more54 min
Jun 14, 1:50 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Denver and 13 more7 hr
Jun 14, 4:48 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 5 more117 min
Jun 13, 9:18 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards, Ford and 14 more57 min
Jun 13, 10:59 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Cheyenne, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove and 20 more91 min
Jun 14, 3:11 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 30 more7 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2009Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2009Every mesoscale discussion in 2009

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.