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Mesoscale Discussion 1160
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 14, 2012, 7:37 AM CDT for 15 counties in Minnesota; 15 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 113 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2012, 7:37 AM CDT (12:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2012, 9:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 30 counties
Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Pine County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Washington County, MN, Wright County, MN, Barron County, WI, Burnett County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Douglas County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Price County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Sawyer County, WI, Taylor County, WI, Washburn County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:40 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1268 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 475 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 442 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Norman, Traverse, Wilkin | 5 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Pope, Stevens and 2 more | 89 min |
| Jun 14, 1:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Faribault, Jackson and 19 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake and 1 more | 89 min |
| Jun 14, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge and 22 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in Wisconsin, 2012Every mesoscale discussion in 2012
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.