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Mesoscale Discussion 792
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2013, 1:57 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2013, 1:57 PM MDT (19:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2013, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 43 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Otero County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Finney 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, Banner County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Colfax County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1331 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Logan, Phillips and 4 more | 9 hr |
| May 23, 10:16 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora, Quay, San Miguel and 1 more | 89 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2013Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2013Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2013Every 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.