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Mesoscale Discussion 1392
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 15, 2014, 2:12 PM MDT for 20 counties in Colorado; 4 counties in New Mexico; Grand County, Uintah County, Utah. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 2014, 2:12 PM MDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2014, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 5%
All 26 counties
Archuleta County, CO, Conejos County, CO, Delta County, CO, Dolores County, CO, Garfield County, CO, Gunnison County, CO, Hinsdale County, CO, La Plata County, CO, Mesa County, CO, Mineral County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Montezuma County, CO, Montrose County, CO, Ouray County, CO, Pitkin County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO, San Juan County, CO, San Miguel County, CO, Los Alamos County, NM, Mora County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, Taos County, NM, Grand County, UT, Uintah County, UT
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 2729 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 6:03 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Crowley, Denver, Douglas and 9 more | 87 min |
| Jul 15, 1:29 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Crowley and 21 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Utah, 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.