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Mesoscale Discussion 1079

June 28, 2016Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; 24 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 28, 2016, 6:13 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; 24 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 2016, 6:13 PM MDT (00:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2016, 8:15 PM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
95%
All 39 counties

Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 186 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 00:00Z on 2016-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1334 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 00:00Z on 2016-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 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
1334 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1309 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 6:27 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCPhillips, Sedgwick63 min
Jun 28, 7:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma7 hr
Jun 28, 9:13 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Lincoln, Otero and 1 more62 min
Jun 28, 9:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBaca, Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa, Las Animas and 4 more5 hr
Jun 29, 12:55 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers2 hr
Jun 29, 2:52 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLogan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Weld, Yuma53 min
Jun 28, 10:04 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace56 min
Jun 28, 8:44 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChase, Dundy, Frontier, Hayes, Hitchcock, Lincoln and 1 more61 min
Jun 29, 4:36 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBurt, Cass, Cedar, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon and 6 more114 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.