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Mesoscale Discussion 1356

July 19, 20174 counties in Iowa; 13 counties in Nebraska; 10 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 19, 2017, 7:06 PM CDT for 4 counties in Iowa; 13 counties in Nebraska; 10 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 84 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 19, 2017, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 2017, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
84 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties

Lyon County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Antelope County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Holt County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Knox County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Rock County, NE, Wayne County, NE, Bon Homme County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Clay County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, Turner County, SD, Union County, SD, Yankton County, SD

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 212 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2017-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1125 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2017-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1125 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3189 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 8:19 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllamakee, Cedar, Clayton, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 3 more86 min
Jul 20, 1:16 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cerro Gordo and 20 more119 min
Jul 20, 3:57 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Calhoun, Carroll, Crawford, Greene, Hamilton and 8 more2 hr
Jul 20, 3:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Kimball2 hr
Jul 20, 3:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHarding, Perkins58 min
Jul 20, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCButte, Harding, Meade, Perkins, Ziebach7 hr
Jul 20, 5:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHarding, Perkins90 min

Nearby

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