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Mesoscale Discussion 1250

June 23, 20125 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 23, 2012, 1:18 AM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 87 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 2012, 1:18 AM CDT (06:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2012, 2:45 AM CDT
In force
87 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 123 counties

Cherokee County, IA, Fremont County, IA, Harrison County, IA, Ida County, IA, Mills County, IA, Monona County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Jewell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Republic County, KS, Smith County, KS, Washington County, KS, Atchison County, MO, Adams County, NE, Antelope County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Boone County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Burt County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Clay County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gage County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Howard County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Knox County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, Madison County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Rock County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Valley County, NE, Washington County, NE, Wayne County, NE, Webster County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, York County, NE, Aurora County, SD, Beadle County, SD, Bennett County, SD, Bon Homme County, SD, Brule County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Clay County, SD, Davison County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, Lyman County, SD, McCook County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Miner County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD, Turner County, SD, Union County, SD, Yankton County, SD

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:19 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 173 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 2012-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 382 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 2012-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 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
382 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-383 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2384 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
239 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 22, 7:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cheyenne, Deuel and 9 more83 min
Jun 22, 9:36 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherry, Dawes, Sheridan84 min
Jun 22, 11:03 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArthur, Blaine, Brown, Chase, Cherry, Custer and 14 more87 min
Jun 22, 11:43 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlaine, Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Garfield, Holt and 3 more92 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 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.