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Mesoscale Discussion 1373
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 23, 2016, 1:41 PM CDT for 19 counties in Minnesota; 4 counties in North Dakota; 14 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 2016, 1:41 PM CDT (18:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2016, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 37 counties
Big Stone County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Murray County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Dickey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Brookings County, SD, Brown County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Marshall County, SD, Moody County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Spink County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 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 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 3021 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 847 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 23, 8:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Hennepin and 18 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 9:25 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Norman, Wilkin | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Douglas, Grant and 10 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 9:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Dunn, Emmons and 12 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in North 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.