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Mesoscale Discussion 1270

July 9, 201738 counties in Minnesota; Grant County, Roberts County, South Dakota; Pierce County, Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 9, 2017, 3:57 PM CDT for 38 counties in Minnesota; Grant County, Roberts County, South Dakota; Pierce County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 2017, 3:57 PM CDT (20:57 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2017, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
93 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
95%
All 41 counties

Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Pope County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Steele County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Grant County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Pierce County, WI

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 292 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 12:00Z on 2017-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2017-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 218 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2440 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
299 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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