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Mesoscale Discussion 1726
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 21, 2016, 2:00 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 21, 2016, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2016, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 118 counties
Allamakee County, IA, Benton County, IA, Black Hawk County, IA, Boone County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Butler County, IA, Cedar County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Clay County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Clinton County, IA, Davis County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Des Moines County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Dubuque County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Grundy County, IA, Hamilton County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Hardin County, IA, Henry County, IA, Howard County, IA, Humboldt County, IA, Iowa County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Jasper County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Johnson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Lee County, IA, Linn County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Mahaska County, IA, Marion County, IA, Marshall County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Muscatine County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Polk County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, Scott County, IA, Story County, IA, Tama County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Washington County, IA, Webster County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Worth County, IA, Wright County, IA, Brown County, IL, Bureau County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Henry County, IL, Kendall County, IL, Knox County, IL, LaSalle County, IL, Lee County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Mason County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Stark County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Warren County, IL, Whiteside County, IL, Woodford County, IL, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Martin County, MN, Mower County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Rice County, MN, Rock County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Steele County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Clark County, MO, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 3354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 946 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 8:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek, Worth | 119 min |
| Sep 20, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 20, 11:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Clayton, Howard, Winneshiek | 2 hr |
| Sep 21, 1:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Howard, Winneshiek | 117 min |
| Sep 21, 6:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 21, 2:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago, Dakota, Goodhue and 15 more | 89 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 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.