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Mesoscale Discussion 978
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 11, 2015, 6:10 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 95 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2015, 6:10 PM MDT (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2015, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 95 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Teller County, CO, Clark 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, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1096 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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, 8:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 87 min |
| Jun 11, 6:54 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Chase, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 12 more | 96 min |
| Jun 11, 10:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Ford, Grant, Haskell and 6 more | 65 min |
| Jun 12, 2:52 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette | 83 min |
| Jun 12, 2:30 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Custer, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 25 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 5:23 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche and 22 more | 97 min |
| Jun 12, 12:44 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Cochran, Crane, Dawson and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 1:47 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Brewster, Briscoe and 45 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:39 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Armstrong, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran and 30 more | 96 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2015Every mesoscale discussion in 2015
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.