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Mesoscale Discussion 1188

June 29, 201719 counties in Iowa; 41 counties in Nebraska; 4 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 29, 2017, 6:08 PM CDT for 19 counties in Iowa; 41 counties in Nebraska; 4 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 2017, 6:08 PM CDT (23:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2017, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 64 counties

Audubon County, IA, Buena Vista County, IA, Carroll County, IA, Cass County, IA, Cherokee County, IA, Clay County, IA, Crawford County, IA, Harrison County, IA, Ida County, IA, Mills County, IA, Monona County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Sac County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Antelope County, NE, Boone County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Burt County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Holt County, NE, Howard County, NE, Knox County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Loup County, NE, Madison County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Valley County, NE, Washington County, NE, Wayne County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, York County, NE, Bon Homme County, SD, Clay County, SD, Union County, SD, Yankton County, SD

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 141 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 712 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1324 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 7:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clinton, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones, Linn	97 min
Jun 28, 8:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Decatur, Ringgold, Taylor	96 min
Jun 29, 2:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Plymouth	94 min
Jun 29, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cherokee and 18 more	8 hr
Jun 29, 3:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Clayton, Delaware and 7 more	117 min
Jun 29, 12:47 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Franklin, Furnas, Harlan, Nuckolls, Webster	58 min
Jun 29, 1:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Franklin, Harlan, Nuckolls, Thayer, Webster	8 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2017 Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2017 Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2017 Every 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.