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Mesoscale Discussion 1162
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 25, 2018, 9:39 PM MDT for 8 counties in Colorado; 30 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 2018, 9:39 PM MDT (03:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2018, 11:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:40 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 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 807 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 6:40 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 26, 12:49 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Crowley, Denver, Douglas and 9 more | 56 min |
| Jul 26, 1:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Denver and 15 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 26, 4:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Hamilton and 11 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2018Every mesoscale discussion in 2018
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.