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Mesoscale Discussion 411

April 27, 201420 counties in Minnesota; 7 counties in North Dakota; 38 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 27, 2014, 1:58 AM CDT for 20 counties in Minnesota; 7 counties in North Dakota; 38 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 27, 2014, 1:58 AM CDT (06:58 UTC)
Expired
Apr 27, 2014, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
20%
All 65 counties

Big Stone County, MN, Brown County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rock County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Dickey County, ND, Emmons County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Beadle County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Brown County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Corson County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Grant County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Meade County, SD, Miner County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Potter County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Spink County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Walworth County, SD, Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:01 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 41 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2014-04-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2014-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 251 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1704 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
251 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
489 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 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.