Alert archive / Colorado / Mesoscale Discussions in 2019
Mesoscale Discussion 1902
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 30, 2019, 2:13 PM MDT for 17 counties in Colorado; Colfax County, Mora County, San Miguel County, New Mexico; Laramie County, Wyoming. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 30, 2019, 2:13 PM MDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2019, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 21 counties
Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Broomfield County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Denver County, CO, Douglas County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Jefferson County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Teller County, CO, Weld County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Mora County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Laramie County, WY
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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 (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 268 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
- 65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -414 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2000 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 4:54 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Converse, Goshen, Niobrara, Platte, Weston | 96 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Wyoming, 2019Every mesoscale discussion in 2019
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.