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Mesoscale Discussion 944

May 23, 2025Prowers County, Colorado; Greeley County, Hamilton County, Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 23, 2025, 8:10 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado; Greeley County, Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2025, 8:10 PM MDT (02:10 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2025, 9:15 PM MDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe thunderstorm watch 313

Counties Prowers County, CO, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 208 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: 1054 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -196 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1070 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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
May 23, 6:26 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma	2 hr
May 24, 12:24 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Crowley, Custer, Denver and 10 more	2 hr
May 24, 1:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso, Teller	9 hr
May 24, 5:46 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso, Jefferson and 3 more	89 min
May 23, 8:54 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Gove, Harper and 13 more	2 hr
May 23, 9:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 33 more	7 hr
May 24, 12:47 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Chautauqua, Cowley, Edwards, Elk, Harper and 9 more	88 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.