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Mesoscale Discussion 1122

June 22, 20144 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 22, 2014, 5:25 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 95 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 2014, 5:25 PM MDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2014, 7:00 PM MDT
In force: 95 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 29 counties

Baca County, CO, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 349Jun 22, 8:45 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 1291 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -141 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1017 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.5

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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 22, 1:22 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Broomfield, Cheyenne and 16 more	113 min
Jun 22, 2:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 8 more	7 hr
Jun 22, 5:33 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Logan, Morgan, Washington, Weld	87 min
Jun 22, 5:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Logan, Morgan, Washington, Weld	5 hr
Jun 22, 11:24 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Geary and 10 more	66 min
Jun 22, 1:57 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Edwards, Ellis and 23 more	63 min
Jun 22, 2:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur and 41 more	6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2014 Every mesoscale discussion in 2014

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.