Alert archive / Iowa / Mesoscale Discussions in 2017
Mesoscale Discussion 1045
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 15, 2017, 5:11 PM CDT for 45 counties in Iowa; 25 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2017, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2017, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 70 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, Butler County, IA, Calhoun County, IA, Carroll County, IA, Cass County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Crawford County, IA, Dallas County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Fremont County, IA, Greene County, IA, Grundy County, IA, Guthrie County, IA, Hamilton County, IA, Hardin County, IA, Harrison County, IA, Humboldt County, IA, Jasper County, IA, Madison County, IA, Marion County, IA, Marshall County, IA, Mills County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Polk County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, Sac County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Story County, IA, Tama County, IA, Union County, IA, Warren County, IA, Webster County, IA, Wright County, IA, Adams County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Clay County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Gage County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Polk County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Washington County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -320 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2312 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer and 40 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2017Every mesoscale discussion in 2017
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.