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Mesoscale Discussion 1725

September 21, 2016Allamakee County, Howard County, Winneshiek County, Iowa; 17 counties in Minnesota; 24 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 21, 2016, 1:33 AM CDT for Allamakee County, Howard County, Winneshiek County, Iowa; 17 counties in Minnesota; 24 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 117 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 21, 2016, 1:33 AM CDT (06:33 UTC)
Expired
Sep 21, 2016, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
117 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties

Allamakee County, IA, Howard County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Blue Earth County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Houston County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Mower County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Steele County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Winona County, MN, Adams County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Clark County, WI, Columbia County, WI, Crawford County, WI, Dane County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Iowa County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Richland County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Vernon County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:34 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 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 179 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2016-09-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2016-09-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 230 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1882 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
230 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
662 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 20, 8:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllamakee, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek, Worth119 min
Sep 20, 9:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllamakee, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd and 6 more5 hr
Sep 20, 11:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllamakee, Clayton, Howard, Winneshiek2 hr
Sep 21, 2:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan and 56 more2 hr
Sep 21, 6:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllamakee, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton and 10 more2 hr
Sep 21, 2:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnoka, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago, Dakota, Goodhue and 15 more89 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Wisconsin, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 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.