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Mesoscale Discussion 1453

June 30, 20117 counties in Nebraska; 9 counties in South Dakota; Weston County, Wyoming

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 30, 2011, 2:19 PM MDT for 7 counties in Nebraska; 9 counties in South Dakota; Weston County, Wyoming. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 30, 2011, 2:19 PM MDT (20:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 2011, 3:15 PM MDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Arthur County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Bennett County, SD, Custer County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Todd County, SD, Weston County, WY

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 131 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 2011-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2011-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -192 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3151 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-86 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 30, 11:57 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff and 1 more63 min
Jun 30, 12:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBanner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more9 hr
Jun 30, 1:49 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanner, Kimball, Scotts Bluff, Sioux116 min
Jun 30, 4:17 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne and 18 more118 min
Jun 30, 4:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArthur, Brown, Cherry, Deuel, Garden, Grant and 9 more5 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Wyoming, 2011Every mesoscale discussion in 2011

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.