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Mesoscale Discussion 883

June 10, 20104 counties in Colorado; 37 counties in Kansas; 18 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 10, 2010, 2:25 PM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado; 37 counties in Kansas; 18 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 2010, 2:25 PM MDT (20:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2010, 4:30 PM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 59 counties

Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Adams County, NE, Chase County, NE, Clay County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 12:00Z on 2010-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 743 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 12:00Z on 2010-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 368 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
743 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-478 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1006 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
368 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
455 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 4:29 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Yuma61 min
Jun 10, 4:44 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Denver, Elbert, Kit Carson and 8 more6 hr
Jun 9, 8:26 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cherry, Cheyenne, Dawes and 10 more64 min
Jun 9, 8:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArthur, Box Butte, Cherry, Dawes, Garden, Grant and 7 more11 hr
Jun 9, 10:52 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArthur, Box Butte, Cherry, Dawes, Garden, Grant and 7 more83 min
Jun 10, 12:41 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Arthur, Banner, Blaine, Boone, Box Butte and 22 more2 hr
Jun 10, 2:16 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAntelope, Arthur, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown and 36 more7 hr
Jun 10, 4:36 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Blaine, Boone, Brown, Buffalo, Burt and 42 more114 min
Jun 10, 5:44 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBurt, Cass, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon, Dodge and 7 more7 hr
Jun 10, 9:02 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Boone, Boyd, Burt, Butler, Cass and 26 more88 min
Jun 10, 2:53 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanner, Scotts Bluff, Sioux67 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2010Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2010Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2010Every mesoscale discussion in 2010

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.