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Mesoscale Discussion 845
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 23, 2018, 5:37 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 113 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 2018, 5:37 PM MDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2018, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -564 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1229 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 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 23, 1:36 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, Kiowa and 4 more | 114 min |
| Jun 23, 2:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 22, 6:12 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clark, Comanche and 20 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 22, 8:07 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Elk, Harper and 3 more | 113 min |
| Jun 22, 8:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland, Coal and 38 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 22, 10:09 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 44 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 22, 10:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, LeFlore, McCurtain, Mayes, Sequoyah | 7 hr |
| Jun 23, 12:01 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 44 more | 59 min |
| Jun 23, 1:17 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 20 more | 118 min |
| Jun 23, 2:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 24 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.