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Mesoscale Discussion 941

June 14, 20104 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 14, 2010, 1:46 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 89 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 2010, 1:46 PM MDT (19:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2010, 3:15 PM MDT
In force: 89 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Dallam County, TX

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 316 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -230 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 535 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 297 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 376 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 12:17 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Lea	58 min
Jun 14, 12:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Lea	9 hr
Jun 13, 6:39 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Greer, Harmon, Jackson	66 min
Jun 13, 7:40 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Grant, Kay	65 min
Jun 13, 9:58 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 11 more	62 min
Jun 14, 12:31 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ottawa	119 min
Jun 14, 1:09 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble, Osage, Washington	3 hr
Jun 14, 2:23 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche and 22 more	67 min
Jun 14, 5:50 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman and 1 more	55 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2010 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2010 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2010 Every 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.