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Mesoscale Discussion 1052
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 1, 2011, 1:24 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2011, 1:24 PM MDT (19:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2011, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 202 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 1745 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 650 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 11.8
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 1, 5:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 1 more | 53 min |
| Jun 1, 12:55 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chase, Cherokee, Clay and 29 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:26 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cloud, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton and 6 more | 34 min |
| Jun 1, 3:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis and 23 more | 7 hr |
| May 31, 6:30 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt | 60 min |
| May 31, 8:19 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lea, Roosevelt | 56 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2011Every mesoscale discussion in 2011
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.