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Mesoscale Discussion 1609

August 3, 201310 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 3, 2013, 9:21 AM MDT for 10 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 24 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 3, 2013, 9:21 AM MDT (15:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2013, 9:45 AM MDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Custer County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Thomas County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:25 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 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 59 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: 349 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -191 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.4

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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
Aug 3, 4:23 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherry, Grant, Sheridan	97 min
Aug 3, 4:46 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Custer, Hooker, Logan and 3 more	5 hr
Aug 3, 6:46 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arthur, Chase, Cherry, Custer, Dawson, Deuel and 10 more	89 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2013 Every mesoscale discussion in 2013

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.