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Mesoscale Discussion 1119

June 22, 201720 counties in Minnesota; 29 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 22, 2017, 3:11 AM CDT for 20 counties in Minnesota; 29 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 2017, 3:11 AM CDT (08:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2017, 4:15 AM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
20%
All 49 counties

Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rock County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Aurora County, SD, Beadle County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Brule County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Davison County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Jones County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Lyman County, SD, McCook County, SD, Miner County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Spink County, SD, Tripp County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:12 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 nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 101 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2017-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 406 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2017-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
406 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2235 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 7:25 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBecker, Beltrami, Big Stone, Cass, Chippewa, Clay and 23 more2 hr
Jun 21, 9:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeltrami, Big Stone, Cass, Clearwater, Douglas, Grant and 5 more53 min
Jun 22, 9:28 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston and 6 more92 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 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.