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Mesoscale Discussion 1548

August 16, 201636 counties in Colorado

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 16, 2016, 4:56 PM MDT for 36 counties in Colorado. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 16, 2016, 4:56 PM MDT (22:56 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 2016, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
5%
All 36 counties

Adams County, CO, Alamosa County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Bent County, CO, Boulder County, CO, Broomfield County, CO, Chaffee County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Clear Creek County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Custer County, CO, Denver County, CO, Douglas County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Gilpin County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Jefferson County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lake County, CO, Larimer County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Otero County, CO, Park County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Saguache County, CO, Summit County, CO, Teller County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2016-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2016-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -66 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2033 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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.