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Mesoscale Discussion 1068
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 27, 2016, 6:44 PM MDT for 10 counties in Colorado; 9 counties in Nebraska; Goshen County, Laramie County, Platte County, Wyoming. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 2016, 6:44 PM MDT (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2016, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties
Adams County, CO, Boulder County, CO, Broomfield County, CO, Larimer County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, Banner County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Goshen County, WY, Laramie County, WY, Platte County, WY
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 533 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3214 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 12:55 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 95 min |
| Jun 28, 1:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld | 7 hr |
| Jun 28, 4:26 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Box Butte, Dawes, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sheridan, Sioux | 94 min |
| Jun 28, 5:36 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Box Butte, Dawes, Garden, Grant, Hooker and 1 more | 24 min |
| Jun 28, 11:32 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crook | 58 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Wyoming, 2016Every mesoscale discussion in 2016
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.