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Mesoscale Discussion 1438
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 29, 2016, 2:42 PM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado; Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico; Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 2016, 2:42 PM MDT (20:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2016, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
Counties Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 139 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 308 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
- 816 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 28, 7:01 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa and 5 more | 59 min |
| Jul 28, 7:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 28, 10:39 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 29, 12:34 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver and 7 more | 116 min |
| Jul 29, 1:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 11 more | 9 hr |
| Jul 29, 5:27 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 13 more | 108 min |
| Jul 28, 7:16 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Grant, Kay, Nowata, Osage, Washington | 89 min |
| Jul 29, 3:45 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Creek, Custer and 17 more | 90 min |
| Jul 29, 11:28 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | LeFlore | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.