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Mesoscale Discussion 723

May 15, 20175 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 15, 2017, 6:34 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 2017, 6:34 PM MDT (00:34 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 2017, 7:30 PM MDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties

Carter County, MT, Custer County, MT, Fallon County, MT, Powder River County, MT, Prairie County, MT, Wibaux County, MT, Adams County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Slope County, ND, Banner County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Harding County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Campbell County, WY, Converse County, WY, Crook County, WY, Goshen County, WY, Niobrara County, WY, Platte County, WY, Weston County, WY

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 127 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, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 2017-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 555 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, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 2017-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 117 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
555 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1143 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
3.7

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 6:41 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBurt, Butler, Colfax, Cuming, Dodge, Madison and 9 more3 hr
May 15, 9:53 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanner, Box Butte, Dawes, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sheridan and 1 more67 min
May 15, 10:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDakota, Dixon3 hr
May 16, 1:16 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanner, Cheyenne, Kimball, Scotts Bluff, Sioux119 min
May 16, 2:58 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Burt, Butler, Cass, Clay, Colfax and 33 more2 hr
May 16, 3:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Burt, Butler, Cass, Clay, Colfax and 33 more7 hr
May 16, 4:47 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArthur, Blaine, Box Butte, Brown, Chase, Cherry and 21 more88 min
May 16, 1:13 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Hutchinson, Lincoln, McCook, Minnehaha, Moody and 3 more92 min

Nearby

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