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Mesoscale Discussion 1230
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 10, 2016, 1:23 AM CDT for 20 counties in Minnesota; Grant County, Roberts County, South Dakota. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 2016, 1:23 AM CDT (06:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2016, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties
Big Stone County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Pope County, MN, Renville County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Grant County, SD, Roberts County, SD
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:24 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1578 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Grant, Mahnomen, Norman, Otter Tail and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 9, 10:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Hubbard and 11 more | 91 min |
| Jul 9, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, McLeod and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 10, 3:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault and 17 more | 87 min |
| Jul 10, 2:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harding | 86 min |
| Jul 10, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Harding, Perkins | 7 hr |
| Jul 10, 3:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Brule, Buffalo, Dewey, Gregory, Haakon and 11 more | 84 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2016Every mesoscale discussion in 2016
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.