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Mesoscale Discussion 1773
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 29, 2014, 11:56 AM MDT for 14 counties in Colorado; 13 counties in New Mexico; Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 29, 2014, 11:56 AM MDT (17:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 2014, 2:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 95%
All 28 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Custer County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Bernalillo County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, Mora County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM, Valencia County, NM, Cimarron County, OK
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:58 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 267 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
- 277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1275 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 1:19 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Denver, Elbert, Kit Carson and 8 more | 56 min |
| Sep 29, 1:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 29, 2:01 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Douglas, Elbert, Kit Carson and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 29, 2:54 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Huerfano, Kiowa, Las Animas and 3 more | 96 min |
| Sep 29, 4:52 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan, Phillips and 3 more | 83 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.