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Mesoscale Discussion 2016

August 27, 202520 counties in Colorado; 10 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kimball County, Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 27, 2025, 2:13 PM MDT for 20 counties in Colorado; 10 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kimball County, Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 27, 2025, 2:13 PM MDT (20:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 27, 2025, 4:15 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe potential...watch unlikely
Chance of a watch: 20%

All 32 counties

Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Broomfield County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Denver 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, Prowers County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Morton County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Cheyenne County, NE, Kimball County, NE

The radar

The Denver radar (KFTG), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 366 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: 575 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2025 Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2025 Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.