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Mesoscale Discussion 1376

July 10, 20134 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 10, 2013, 6:33 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 87 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 10, 2013, 6:33 PM MDT (00:33 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2013, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 87 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 56 counties

Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Logan County, CO, Otero County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Arthur County, NE, Banner County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Garden County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Keith County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Goshen County, WY, Laramie County, WY

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -159 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2954 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2013 Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2013 Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2013 Every mesoscale discussion in 2013

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.