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Mesoscale Discussion 552

April 24, 20257 counties in Colorado; Greeley County, Sherman County, Wallace County, Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 24, 2025, 7:13 PM MDT for 7 counties in Colorado; Greeley County, Sherman County, Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 92 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 24, 2025, 7:13 PM MDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired
Apr 24, 2025, 8:45 PM MDT
In force
92 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning
Severe thunderstorm watch 169

Counties Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Greeley County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Wallace County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 276 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2025-04-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1255 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2025-04-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -32 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1255 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1377 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.1

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 24, 6:07 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Comanche83 min

Nearby

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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.