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Mesoscale Discussion 1443

June 21, 200336 counties in Nebraska; 31 counties in South Dakota; 4 counties in Wyoming

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 21, 2003, 4:52 PM CDT for 36 counties in Nebraska; 31 counties in South Dakota; 4 counties in Wyoming. It was in force for 83 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 2003, 4:52 PM CDT (21:52 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 2003, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
83 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 71 counties

Antelope County, NE, Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Boone County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Grant County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Howard County, NE, Keith County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Nance County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Rock County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Valley County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, Aurora County, SD, Bennett County, SD, Brule County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Butte County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Custer County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Meade County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Potter County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD, Ziebach County, SD, Crook County, WY, Goshen County, WY, Niobrara County, WY, Weston County, WY

The watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 112 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2003-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 34 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2003-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 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
34 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-373 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2468 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 7:19 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChase, Dundy, Frontier, Hayes, Hitchcock, Perkins and 1 more86 min
Jun 20, 8:59 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArthur, Blaine, Brown, Chase, Cherry, Custer and 18 more61 min
Jun 21, 2:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAntelope, Arthur, Banner, Blaine, Boone, Box Butte and 32 more7 hr
Jun 21, 1:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButte, Campbell, Corson, Custer, Dewey, Fall River and 14 more3 hr
Jun 21, 2:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Campbell, Corson, Day, Dewey, Edmunds and 7 more6 hr
Jun 21, 3:03 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrookings, Lincoln, Minnehaha, Moody117 min
Jun 21, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Day, Edmunds, Grant, McPherson, Marshall and 1 more7 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Wyoming, 2003Every mesoscale discussion in 2003

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.