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Mesoscale Discussion 706

May 24, 20208 counties in Colorado; Greeley County, Hamilton County, Stanton County, Kansas; Cimarron County, Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2020, 1:28 PM MDT for 8 counties in Colorado; Greeley County, Hamilton County, Stanton County, Kansas; Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2020, 1:28 PM MDT (19:28 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2020, 3:30 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe potential...watch possible
Chance of a watch: 40%

Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Cimarron County, OK

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 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 watches that followed

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

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 220May 24, 3:45 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 238 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: 1043 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 157 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
May 24, 3:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baca, Bent, Crowley, Las Animas, Otero, Prowers and 1 more	4 hr
May 23, 7:02 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Clark, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford and 9 more	2 hr
May 24, 12:13 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Clay, Doniphan, Douglas and 18 more	92 min
May 24, 12:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Clay, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson and 8 more	6 hr
May 24, 1:15 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell and 9 more	2 hr
May 24, 2:07 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Seward	83 min
May 24, 4:14 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Edwards and 32 more	91 min
May 24, 4:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 29 more	6 hr
May 23, 7:48 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton and 14 more	117 min
May 23, 8:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 13 more	4 hr
May 23, 10:36 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Jefferson and 2 more	114 min
May 24, 1:58 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, LeFlore, Sequoyah	2 hr
May 24, 2:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Beaver, Beckham, Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills	7 hr
May 24, 5:39 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaver, Beckham, Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2020 Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2020 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.