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Mesoscale Discussion 890
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 12, 2016, 5:41 PM MDT for 14 counties in Colorado; 9 counties in Kansas; Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2016, 5:41 PM MDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2016, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 24 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Custer County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Teller County, CO, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Morton County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Texas County, OK
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -304 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2145 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 12:41 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:32 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jackson | 118 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.