Alert archive / Minnesota / Mesoscale Discussions in 2014
Mesoscale Discussion 1082
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 19, 2014, 1:32 AM CDT for 22 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 2014, 1:32 AM CDT (06:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2014, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties
Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Lyon County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Steele County, MN, Swift County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:34 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 109 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -493 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1291 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 8:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Grant, Jackson, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln and 10 more | 88 min |
| Jun 18, 9:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Clay, Cottonwood, Douglas and 22 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 10:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Faribault and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 19, 1:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Rock | 90 min |
| Jun 19, 1:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 3:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 90 min |
| Jun 19, 2:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Le Sueur, Martin and 6 more | 88 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2014Every 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.