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Mesoscale Discussion 889

May 16, 20057 counties in Idaho; Elko County, Eureka County, White Pine County, Nevada; 6 counties in Utah

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 16, 2005, 12:29 PM MDT for 7 counties in Idaho; Elko County, Eureka County, White Pine County, Nevada; 6 counties in Utah. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 16, 2005, 12:29 PM MDT (18:29 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2005, 3:00 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Bannock County, ID, Cassia County, ID, Franklin County, ID, Jerome County, ID, Oneida County, ID, Power County, ID, Twin Falls County, ID, Elko County, NV, Eureka County, NV, White Pine County, NV, Box Elder County, UT, Cache County, UT, Davis County, UT, Salt Lake County, UT, Tooele County, UT, Weber County, UT

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 182 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watches that followed

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

The nearest sounding before it

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 39 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: 812 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 151 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 3:47 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Bonneville, Butte, Caribou and 6 more	88 min
May 16, 4:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Bonneville, Butte, Caribou and 8 more	6 hr
May 16, 2:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	White Pine	8 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Idaho, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Utah, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Nevada, 2005 Every mesoscale discussion in 2005

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.