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Mesoscale Discussion 1534

August 14, 201618 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 14, 2016, 5:42 PM CDT for 18 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 14, 2016, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2016, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 60%

Counties Brule County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Potter County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD, Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 446Aug 14, 6:15 PM CDT

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 14, 3:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butte, Custer, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Oglala Lakota and 3 more	2 hr
Aug 14, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bennett, Brule, Buffalo, Butte, Campbell, Charles Mix and 28 more	7 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in South 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.