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Mesoscale Discussion 962

June 11, 20144 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 11, 2014, 4:03 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 11, 2014, 4:03 PM MDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2014, 5:00 PM MDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 80%

All 35 counties

Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 284Jun 11, 4:45 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 40 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -608 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1858 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 296 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 11, 2:05 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Phillips, Washington, Yuma	55 min
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, 4:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clark, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 14 more	6 hr
Jun 11, 2:46 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Cochran, Coke, Concho, Crane and 38 more	59 min
Jun 11, 2:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Borden, Callahan, Coke, Concho, Crane, Crockett and 30 more	7 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.