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Mesoscale Discussion 915
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 14, 2016, 2:51 PM CDT for 65 counties in Iowa; Jackson County, Nobles County, Minnesota; 8 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 114 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2016, 2:51 PM CDT (19:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2016, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 75 counties
Adair County, IA, Adams County, IA, Audubon County, IA, Benton County, IA, Black Hawk County, IA, Boone County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Buena Vista County, IA, Butler County, IA, Calhoun County, IA, Carroll County, IA, Cass County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Cherokee County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Clay County, IA, Crawford County, IA, Dallas County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Greene County, IA, Grundy County, IA, Guthrie County, IA, Hamilton County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Hardin County, IA, Harrison County, IA, Humboldt County, IA, Ida County, IA, Jasper County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Lyon County, IA, Madison County, IA, Mahaska County, IA, Marion County, IA, Marshall County, IA, Mills County, IA, Monona County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Polk County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, Sac County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Story County, IA, Tama County, IA, Union County, IA, Warren County, IA, Webster County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Worth County, IA, Wright County, IA, Jackson County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Burt County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Washington County, NE
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 852 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1164 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 11:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 57 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 12:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 52 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Cedar and 22 more | 56 min |
| Jun 14, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Buchanan, Chickasaw, Clayton, Clinton and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Taylor | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Buchanan, Cedar, Chickasaw, Clayton, Clinton and 14 more | 66 min |
| Jun 14, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 32 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Blue Earth, Carver, Chippewa, Dakota, Faribault and 20 more | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 7:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cherry, Cheyenne, Dawes and 13 more | 90 min |
| Jun 13, 8:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Box Butte, Brown, Cherry, Cheyenne and 11 more | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 11:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Brown, Chase, Custer, Dawson, Dundy and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Garfield, Keya Paha, Loup and 1 more | 119 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 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.