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Mesoscale Discussion 1164

June 26, 20145 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 26, 2014, 5:50 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 2014, 5:50 PM MDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2014, 8:15 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 40%

Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Morton County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 197 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 306 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -516 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2191 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 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
Jun 25, 8:49 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers	56 min
Jun 26, 2:07 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Denver and 15 more	53 min
Jun 26, 3:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld	8 hr
Jun 26, 5:48 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Logan, Morgan, Washington, Weld, Yuma	87 min
Jun 26, 12:55 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ellis, Lincoln, Mitchell, Osborne, Rooks, Russell and 1 more	95 min
Jun 26, 1:54 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha	3 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.