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Mesoscale Discussion 988

June 13, 20144 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 13, 2014, 6:11 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2014, 6:11 PM MDT (00:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2014, 8:15 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 35 counties

Carter County, MT, Custer County, MT, Fallon County, MT, Powder River County, MT, Banner County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Garden County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Bennett County, SD, Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Harding County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Todd County, SD, Ziebach County, SD, Campbell County, WY, Crook County, WY, Goshen County, WY, Niobrara County, WY, Sheridan County, WY, Weston County, WY

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 1139 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2334 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.6

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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 14, 12:57 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Cedar, Clay and 29 more	2 hr
Jun 14, 2:06 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chase, Dundy, Frontier, Hayes, Hitchcock, Lincoln and 1 more	114 min
Jun 14, 2:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Banner, Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill	7 hr
Jun 14, 4:10 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cedar and 35 more	7 hr
Jun 14, 5:22 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dundy, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Hayes, Hitchcock and 2 more	83 min
Jun 14, 5:40 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow	4 hr
Jun 13, 8:26 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bennett, Corson, Custer, Dewey, Fall River, Haakon and 10 more	94 min
Jun 14, 6:14 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Buffalo, Haakon, Hand, Hughes, Hyde, Jackson and 7 more	2 hr
Jun 14, 10:24 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Buffalo, Hughes, Jones, Lyman, Mellette, Todd	96 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in Wyoming, 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.