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Mesoscale Discussion 1136

June 23, 20148 counties in Colorado; 13 counties in Kansas; Chase County, Dundy County, Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 23, 2014, 10:27 PM MDT for 8 counties in Colorado; 13 counties in Kansas; Chase County, Dundy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 2014, 10:27 PM MDT (04:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2014, 11:30 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties

Kit Carson County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:28 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 (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 101 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2014-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 433 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2014-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -53 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
433 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2064 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-1.3

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 7:29 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 9 more2 hr
Jun 24, 11:53 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne2 hr
Jun 24, 1:06 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Douglas, Elbert and 8 more114 min
Jun 24, 2:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBaca, Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano, Kiowa and 4 more8 hr
Jun 24, 2:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 6 more7 hr
Jun 24, 4:38 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCProwers97 min
Jun 24, 1:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 27 more7 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2014Every 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.