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Mesoscale Discussion 828

May 27, 201318 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 27, 2013, 6:11 PM MDT for 18 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 94 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 2013, 6:11 PM MDT (00:11 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2013, 7:45 PM MDT
In force
94 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Bennett County, SD, Custer County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Potter County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Todd County, SD, Walworth County, SD, Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 98 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 00:00Z on 2013-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 317 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 00:00Z on 2013-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 108 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
317 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-163 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1053 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.9

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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 28, 2:08 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCuster, Fall River, Oglala Lakota, Pennington2 hr
May 28, 5:05 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBennett115 min

Nearby

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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.