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Mesoscale Discussion 1045

June 17, 2014Butte County, Harding County, South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 17, 2014, 6:33 PM MDT for Butte County, Harding County, South Dakota. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 17, 2014, 6:33 PM MDT (00:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2014, 7:00 PM MDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Butte County, SD, Harding County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 317Jun 17, 8:00 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 3730 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 846 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 7.1

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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
Jun 17, 7:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding, Lawrence and 4 more	5 hr
Jun 17, 9:18 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bon Homme, Clay, Hanson, Hutchinson, Lake, Lincoln and 7 more	57 min
Jun 17, 10:01 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Lincoln, McCook, Minnehaha, Turner, Union and 1 more	29 min
Jun 17, 10:23 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Lake, Lincoln, Minnehaha, Moody, Union	37 min
Jun 17, 10:39 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Clay, Hanson, Hutchinson, Lake, Lincoln, McCook and 5 more	5 hr
Jun 18, 12:19 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butte, Corson, Custer, Dewey, Haakon, Lawrence and 4 more	56 min
Jun 18, 12:52 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Lincoln, Union	83 min
Jun 18, 3:45 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Haakon, Hughes, Hyde and 10 more	90 min
Jun 18, 12:13 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beadle, Brown, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds and 10 more	92 min
Jun 18, 12:28 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk and 13 more	9 hr
Jun 18, 2:29 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 23 more	91 min
Jun 18, 4:23 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Campbell, Edmunds, McPherson, Marshall, Walworth	97 min
Jun 18, 5:23 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more	5 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2014 Every mesoscale discussion in 2014

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.