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Mesoscale Discussion 1015

June 26, 2020Cheyenne County, Kiowa County, Kit Carson County, Colorado; 6 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 26, 2020, 7:13 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kiowa County, Kit Carson County, Colorado; 6 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 2020, 7:13 PM MDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2020, 9:15 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe thunderstorm watch 306...308

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Perkins County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 103 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2227 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 2:18 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bent, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso, Las Animas, Lincoln and 2 more	117 min
Jun 27, 5:01 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Kiowa, Prowers	119 min
Jun 26, 6:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atchison, Barton, Brown, Cheyenne, Clay, Cloud and 53 more	8 hr
Jun 26, 9:41 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Doniphan and 28 more	2 hr
Jun 27, 12:28 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson and 50 more	2 hr
Jun 27, 2:22 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chase, Dickinson, Douglas, Ellsworth, Franklin, Geary and 14 more	53 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2020 Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2020 Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2020 Every mesoscale discussion in 2020

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.