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Mesoscale Discussion 1589

July 12, 201117 counties in Iowa; 31 counties in Nebraska; Clay County, Union County, South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 12, 2011, 2:09 AM CDT for 17 counties in Iowa; 31 counties in Nebraska; Clay County, Union County, South Dakota. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 12, 2011, 2:09 AM CDT (07:09 UTC)
Expired
Jul 12, 2011, 3:15 AM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties

Audubon County, IA, Buena Vista County, IA, Carroll County, IA, Cass County, IA, Cherokee County, IA, Crawford County, IA, Harrison County, IA, Ida County, IA, Mills County, IA, Monona County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Sac County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Antelope County, NE, Boone County, NE, Burt County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Holt County, NE, Howard County, NE, Knox County, NE, Madison County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Valley County, NE, Washington County, NE, Wayne County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, Clay County, SD, Union County, SD

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:09 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 280 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2011-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2166 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2011-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2166 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1348 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.2

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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
Jul 12, 1:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDes Moines, Lee2 hr
Jul 11, 7:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherry, Sheridan66 min
Jul 11, 9:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Arthur, Blaine, Boone, Brown, Buffalo and 30 more65 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 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.