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Mesoscale Discussion 822

May 27, 20134 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 27, 2013, 3:52 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 83 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 2013, 3:52 PM MDT (21:52 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2013, 5:15 PM MDT
In force
83 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties

Carter County, MT, Custer County, MT, Fallon County, MT, Powder River County, MT, Prairie County, MT, Wibaux County, MT, Adams County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Bennett County, SD, Butte County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD, Custer County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Harding County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Walworth County, SD, Ziebach County, SD, Campbell County, WY, Crook County, WY, Weston County, WY

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 123 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 2013-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 832 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2013-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
832 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
578 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
5.2

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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
May 26, 6:08 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Horn, Custer, Fergus, Garfield, Musselshell, Petroleum and 4 more2 hr
May 26, 9:31 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Horn, Carter, Custer, McCone, Powder River, Prairie and 2 more119 min
May 27, 11:36 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarter54 min
May 27, 11:51 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBig Horn, Carter, Custer, Fallon, Powder River, Rosebud and 1 more10 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2013Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2013Mesoscale Discussions in Montana, 2013Every 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.