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Mesoscale Discussion 956
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 11, 2014, 2:05 PM MDT for 6 counties in Colorado; 12 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2014, 2:05 PM MDT (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2014, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 23 counties
Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas 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), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 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
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 3361 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Washington, Yuma | 7 hr |
| Jun 11, 3:02 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 1 more | 58 min |
| Jun 11, 4:03 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 57 min |
| Jun 11, 4:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 14 more | 6 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.