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Mesoscale Discussion 960
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 9, 2023, 2:18 PM MDT for 8 counties in Colorado; Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 2023, 2:18 PM MDT (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2023, 4:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 117 min
- 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, Colfax County, NM, Union County, NM
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 134 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 335 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
- 257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1923 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 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 9, 3:13 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Quay | 92 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2023Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2023Every mesoscale discussion in 2023
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.