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Mesoscale Discussion 1300
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 16, 2016, 5:09 PM CDT for 16 counties in Minnesota; 45 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 96 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 2016, 5:09 PM CDT (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2016, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 96 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 61 counties
Big Stone County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon 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, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Aurora County, SD, Beadle County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Brown County, SD, Brule County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Corson County, SD, Davison County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Grant County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Jones County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Lyman County, SD, McCook County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Miner County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Potter County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Spink County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD, Walworth County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 1153 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 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 16, 12:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Traverse, Wilkin | 2 hr |
| Jul 16, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Traverse | 7 hr |
| Jul 16, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 16, 3:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson, Day and 11 more | 87 min |
| Jul 16, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 10 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 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.