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Mesoscale Discussion 776

June 1, 20145 counties in Colorado; 35 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 1, 2014, 12:51 PM MDT for 5 counties in Colorado; 35 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 114 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 1, 2014, 12:51 PM MDT (18:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2014, 2:45 PM MDT
In force
114 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
95%
All 45 counties

Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Barton County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Clark County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 151 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2014-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 438 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2014-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 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
438 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-418 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1270 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
9 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 4:24 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLogan, Phillips, Sedgwick96 min
Jun 1, 12:39 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGrant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Meade, Seward96 min
Jun 1, 12:08 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGraham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne, Phillips and 3 more2 hr
Jun 1, 12:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and 17 more10 hr
Jun 1, 2:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur and 48 more7 hr
Jun 1, 2:42 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln, Marshall and 9 more63 min
Jun 1, 5:44 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 35 more91 min
Jun 1, 5:50 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Coffey, Doniphan and 20 more85 min
May 31, 7:32 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCSioux118 min
Jun 1, 1:34 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCedar, Dakota, Dixon, Pierce, Thurston, Wayne86 min
Jun 1, 5:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArthur, Blaine, Chase, Cherry, Custer, Deuel and 12 more4 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.