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Mesoscale Discussion 1378
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 23, 2016, 3:54 PM CDT for 16 counties in Minnesota; 7 counties in North Dakota; 7 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 2016, 3:54 PM CDT (20:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2016, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 30 counties
Becker County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Clay County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pope County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Traill County, ND, Codington County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Marshall County, SD, Roberts County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 178 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, 1:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 13 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 North Dakota, 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.