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Mesoscale Discussion 1122

June 5, 2025Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado; 11 counties in Kansas; Texas County, Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 5, 2025, 12:20 PM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado; 11 counties in Kansas; Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 115 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 2025, 12:20 PM MDT (18:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2025, 2:15 PM MDT
In force: 115 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe potential...tornado watch likely
Chance of a watch: 80%

Counties Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Texas County, OK

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 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.

Tornado Watch 369Jun 5, 1:00 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 683 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 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 5, 12:30 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Crowley, Denver, Douglas and 10 more	2 hr
Jun 5, 1:00 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	7 hr
Jun 5, 1:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Crowley, Denver, Douglas and 12 more	8 hr
Jun 5, 2:33 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Grant, Haskell, Stanton	87 min
Jun 5, 11:42 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer and 11 more	93 min
Jun 5, 11:46 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Dewey and 10 more	5 hr
Jun 5, 1:45 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cimarron	2 hr
Jun 5, 2:06 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Garvin, Grady and 11 more	114 min
Jun 5, 2:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cleveland, Coal, Garvin, Hughes, Johnston, McClain and 5 more	4 hr
Jun 5, 4:19 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cleveland, Garvin, Grady, Hughes, McClain, Pottawatomie and 1 more	86 min
Jun 5, 5:59 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Choctaw, Coal, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc and 1 more	91 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2025 Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2025 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2025 Every mesoscale discussion in 2025

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.