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Mesoscale Discussion 1410
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 27, 2016, 2:41 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 2016, 2:41 PM MDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2016, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 28 counties
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, Logan County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Powder River County, MT, Banner County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Campbell County, WY, Converse County, WY, Goshen County, WY, Johnson County, WY, Laramie County, WY, Niobrara County, WY, Platte County, WY, Sheridan County, WY
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -467 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2359 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 27, 1:35 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Horn, Broadwater, Cascade, Fergus, Golden Valley, Judith Basin and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 26, 7:58 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Custer, Garden and 15 more | 62 min |
| Jul 26, 11:50 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Butler, Clay and 21 more | 115 min |
| Jul 27, 2:11 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Box Butte, Brown, Cherry, Dawes and 11 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Wyoming, 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.