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Mesoscale Discussion 1144

June 24, 201410 counties in Colorado; Colfax County, New Mexico; Laramie County, Wyoming

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 24, 2014, 7:13 PM MDT for 10 counties in Colorado; Colfax County, New Mexico; Laramie County, Wyoming. It was in force for 92 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 24, 2014, 7:13 PM MDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2014, 8:45 PM MDT
In force: 92 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Weld County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Laramie County, WY

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 938 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1771 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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 25, 1:28 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Alamosa, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Boulder and 33 more	2 hr
Jun 25, 2:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 19 more	7 hr
Jun 25, 5:51 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 8 more	84 min
Jun 25, 11:28 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, Eddy, Lea	2 hr
Jun 25, 12:58 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Albany, Campbell, Converse, Crook, Goshen, Johnson and 5 more	2 hr
Jun 25, 1:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Albany, Campbell, Converse, Crook, Goshen, Johnson and 5 more	7 hr
Jun 25, 5:07 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crook, Goshen, Niobrara, Weston	83 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in Wyoming, 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.