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Mesoscale Discussion 543

May 6, 2016Elko County, Eureka County, Nevada; 13 counties in Utah

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 6, 2016, 11:57 AM PDT for Elko County, Eureka County, Nevada; 13 counties in Utah. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 6, 2016, 11:57 AM PDT (18:57 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 2016, 1:30 PM PDT
In force
93 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
5%

Counties Elko County, NV, Eureka County, NV, Box Elder County, UT, Carbon County, UT, Davis County, UT, Duchesne County, UT, Juab County, UT, Morgan County, UT, Salt Lake County, UT, Summit County, UT, Tooele County, UT, Uintah County, UT, Utah County, UT, Wasatch County, UT, Weber County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 200 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2016-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2016-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 118 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-118 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2710 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Utah, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Nevada, 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.