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Mesoscale Discussion 1216
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 8, 2016, 4:31 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2016, 4:31 PM MDT (22:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2016, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 22 counties
Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Chase County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Keith County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Laramie County, WY
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 1008 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1117 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2:27 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Prowers | 93 min |
| Jul 8, 3:12 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bent, Crowley, Otero, Pueblo | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano, Kiowa and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 7:01 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chase, Coffey, Crawford and 16 more | 119 min |
| Jul 7, 7:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 10:01 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Cherokee, Coffey and 10 more | 119 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.