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Mesoscale Discussion 1473

August 3, 2016Cherry County, Keya Paha County, Nebraska; 6 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 3, 2016, 5:40 PM MDT for Cherry County, Keya Paha County, Nebraska; 6 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 3, 2016, 5:40 PM MDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2016, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 20%

Counties Cherry County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Bennett County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 163 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -675 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1822 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 332 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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
Aug 3, 2:55 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Banner, Box Butte, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff and 1 more	95 min
Aug 2, 7:10 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butte, Haakon, Jones, Lawrence, Meade, Mellette and 2 more	3 hr
Aug 3, 1:52 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Meade, Perkins, Ziebach	53 min
Aug 3, 2:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Day, Dewey and 14 more	7 hr
Aug 3, 5:29 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Campbell, Day, Edmunds, Faulk, Hand and 8 more	91 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2016 Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.