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Mesoscale Discussion 732
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 16, 2017, 1:16 PM MDT for 14 counties in Colorado; 5 counties in Nebraska; Goshen County, Laramie County, Platte County, Wyoming. It was in force for 119 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 2017, 1:16 PM MDT (19:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2017, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 22 counties
Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, Banner County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Goshen County, WY, Laramie County, WY, Platte County, WY
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:17 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 2333 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 4:47 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kit Carson, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 88 min |
| May 15, 6:34 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Dawes, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sheridan and 1 more | 56 min |
| May 15, 6:41 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burt, Butler, Colfax, Cuming, Dodge, Madison and 9 more | 3 hr |
| May 15, 9:53 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Dawes, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sheridan and 1 more | 67 min |
| May 15, 10:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dakota, Dixon | 3 hr |
| May 16, 2:58 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Burt, Butler, Cass, Clay, Colfax and 33 more | 2 hr |
| May 16, 3:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Burt, Butler, Cass, Clay, Colfax and 33 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Wyoming, 2017Every mesoscale discussion in 2017
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.