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Mesoscale Discussion 1239
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 21, 2026, 6:18 PM MDT for Baca County, Bent County, Prowers County, Colorado; 25 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 87 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 2026, 6:18 PM MDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2026, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe thunderstorm watch 367
All 28 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Barton County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 2689 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1145 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 12.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 11:29 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Logan, Morgan, Washington, Weld | 2 hr |
| Jun 22, 12:40 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 22, 1:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 12 more | 10 hr |
| Jun 22, 4:21 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 14 more | 114 min |
| Jun 21, 7:49 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Grant and 14 more | 86 min |
| Jun 21, 9:36 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Harper, Sumner | 54 min |
| Jun 21, 10:36 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee | 84 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.