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Mesoscale Discussion 952

June 5, 201712 counties in Colorado; Colfax County, Mora County, New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 5, 2017, 2:51 PM MDT for 12 counties in Colorado; Colfax County, Mora County, New Mexico. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 2017, 2:51 PM MDT (20:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2017, 3:45 PM MDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
20%

Counties Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Douglas County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Mora County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 2017-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 54 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 2017-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 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
54 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-409 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2055 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 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.