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Mesoscale Discussion 1118

June 22, 20145 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 22, 2014, 2:30 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 2014, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2014, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 51 counties

Allamakee County, IA, Benton County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Cedar County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Clinton County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Des Moines County, IA, Dubuque County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Henry County, IA, Iowa County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Johnson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Lee County, IA, Linn County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Muscatine County, IA, Scott County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Washington County, IA, Carroll County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Henry County, IL, Jo Daviess County, IL, Knox County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Warren County, IL, Whiteside County, IL, Houston County, MN, Clark County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Adams County, WI, Crawford County, WI, Grant County, WI, Iowa County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Lafayette County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Richland County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Vernon County, WI

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 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

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 210 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1176 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 22, 11:19 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hancock, Henderson, Jo Daviess, Mercer, Rock Island, Warren	101 min
Jun 22, 11:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, McDonough and 4 more	7 hr
Jun 22, 5:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Brown, Bureau, Cass, Fulton, Hancock and 22 more	92 min
Jun 21, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cherokee, Ida, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth and 2 more	6 hr
Jun 21, 11:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Kossuth and 7 more	93 min
Jun 22, 12:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Decatur, Ringgold, Wayne	66 min
Jun 21, 8:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Big Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Lac qui Parle and 11 more	91 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in Wisconsin, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 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.