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Mesoscale Discussion 383
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 15, 2016, 1:07 PM MDT for 5 counties in Colorado; 10 counties in Kansas; 14 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2016, 1:07 PM MDT (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2016, 2:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 29 counties
Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Arthur County, NE, Chase County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Garden County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 1:25 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boulder, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson, Larimer and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 15, 1:38 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 2 hr |
| Apr 15, 1:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 7 hr |
| Apr 15, 1:57 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 7 hr |
| Apr 15, 4:47 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kit Carson, Yuma | 88 min |
| Apr 15, 5:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 114 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.