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Mesoscale Discussion 1303

July 16, 2016Dickey County, Richland County, Sargent County, North Dakota; 7 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 16, 2016, 10:53 PM CDT for Dickey County, Richland County, Sargent County, North Dakota; 7 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 16, 2016, 10:53 PM CDT (03:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2016, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Dickey County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Brown County, SD, Day County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Roberts County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 687 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -137 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1298 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 295 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 515 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 7:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bennett, Dewey, Haakon, Hughes, Hyde, Jackson and 11 more	83 min
Jul 16, 8:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brookings, Kingsbury, Lake, Minnehaha, Moody	95 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2016 Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2016 Every 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.