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Mesoscale Discussion 767

June 17, 20185 counties in Colorado; Cheyenne County, Kansas; 13 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 17, 2018, 1:05 PM MDT for 5 counties in Colorado; Cheyenne County, Kansas; 13 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 85 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 17, 2018, 1:05 PM MDT (19:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 2018, 2:30 PM MDT
In force
85 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
80%

Counties Logan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Blaine County, NE, Chase County, NE, Custer County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 125 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2018-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 74 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2018-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
74 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-134 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
840 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 1:35 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCKit Carson, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma7 hr
Jun 17, 3:53 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKit Carson, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma97 min
Jun 17, 5:47 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCPhillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma88 min
Jun 16, 6:59 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanner, Box Butte, Cherry, Cheyenne, Dawes, Garden and 5 more91 min
Jun 16, 8:50 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanner, Box Butte, Cherry, Dawes, Grant, Morrill and 2 more85 min
Jun 17, 2:52 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBurt, Butler, Cass, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 17 more53 min
Jun 17, 4:47 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlaine, Boyd, Brown, Holt, Knox, Logan and 3 more118 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.