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Mesoscale Discussion 994

June 20, 20165 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 20, 2016, 3:07 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 83 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 2016, 3:07 PM CDT (20:07 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2016, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
83 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
40%
All 63 counties

Appanoose County, IA, Davis County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Des Moines County, IA, Henry County, IA, Lee County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Adams County, IL, Brown County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Knox County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Pike County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Warren County, IL, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clark County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Marion County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Shelby County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO, Nemaha County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 215 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2016-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 250 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2016-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
250 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-343 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1291 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
217 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 1:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChampaign, DeWitt, Douglas, Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee and 8 more2 hr
Jun 20, 3:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChampaign, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Iroquois and 5 more7 hr
Jun 20, 6:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChampaign, DeWitt, Edgar, Ford, Iroquois, Livingston and 3 more85 min
Jun 20, 12:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Fremont, Harrison and 7 more114 min
Jun 20, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Clarke, Davis and 17 more5 hr
Jun 20, 6:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Cass, Clarke and 22 more63 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 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.