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Mesoscale Discussion 660

May 16, 2013Logan County, Morgan County, Weld County, Colorado; 8 counties in Nebraska; Goshen County, Laramie County, Wyoming

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 16, 2013, 2:12 PM MDT for Logan County, Morgan County, Weld County, Colorado; 8 counties in Nebraska; Goshen County, Laramie County, Wyoming. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 16, 2013, 2:12 PM MDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2013, 3:45 PM MDT
In force: 93 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 5%

Counties Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Weld County, CO, Banner County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Goshen County, WY, Laramie County, WY

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -352 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2211 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 11:59 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Phillips, Sedgwick	2 hr
May 16, 12:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Kit Carson, Yuma	6 hr
May 16, 2:48 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Kiowa, Prowers	87 min
May 16, 12:25 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Antelope, Boone, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming, Dixon and 9 more	95 min
May 16, 2:35 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Custer, Dawson, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Harlan and 5 more	85 min
May 16, 5:30 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Clay, Colfax and 19 more	90 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2013 Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2013 Mesoscale Discussions in Wyoming, 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.