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Mesoscale Discussion 1913
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 9, 2025, 12:53 PM MDT for 20 counties in Colorado; 14 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2025, 12:53 PM MDT (18:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2025, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch likely
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 39 counties
Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Otero County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Chase County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Perkins County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:58 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 304 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
- 124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -409 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3271 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 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 9, 1:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 7 more | 12 hr |
| Aug 9, 4:30 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kit Carson, Lincoln, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 9:45 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 9, 1:17 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Burt, Butler, Cass, Clay and 29 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 9, 3:28 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Cass, Clay, Douglas, Fillmore, Lancaster and 8 more | 92 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2025Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2025Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2025Every 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.