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Mesoscale Discussion 1544
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 16, 2016, 3:19 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 2016, 3:19 PM CDT (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2016, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 79 counties
Clay County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Lyon County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Pope County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Rock County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Steele County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Brookings County, SD, Codington County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Marshall County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Roberts County, SD
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 408 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 979 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
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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.