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Mesoscale Discussion 1323

July 16, 201742 counties in Illinois; Des Moines County, Lee County, Van Buren County, Iowa; 13 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 16, 2017, 2:06 PM CDT for 42 counties in Illinois; Des Moines County, Lee County, Van Buren County, Iowa; 13 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 2017, 2:06 PM CDT (19:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2017, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
20%
All 58 counties

Des Moines County, IA, Lee County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Adams County, IL, Bond County, IL, Brown County, IL, Calhoun County, IL, Cass County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Clinton County, IL, Coles County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Greene County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Jersey County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Macoupin County, IL, Madison County, IL, Marion County, IL, Mason County, IL, McDonough County, IL, McLean County, IL, Menard County, IL, Montgomery County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Pike County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Scott County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Warren County, IL, City of Saint Louis, MO, Clark County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Marion County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Pike County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Saint Charles County, MO, Saint Louis County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Shelby County, MO

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2017-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 501 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2017-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
501 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-309 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1209 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.3

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The text

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Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 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.