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Mesoscale Discussion 753

May 17, 201723 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 17, 2017, 6:31 PM CDT for 23 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 89 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 17, 2017, 6:31 PM CDT (23:31 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 2017, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
89 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties

Adams County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Clark County, WI, Columbia County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Portage County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Taylor County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Winnebago County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2017-05-17Temperature 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2017-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1435 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 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
May 16, 9:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBuffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire, Florence and 18 more61 min
May 16, 9:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Buffalo, Clark, Jackson, Juneau, La Crosse and 14 more5 hr
May 16, 11:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Buffalo, Clark, Eau Claire, Forest, Jackson and 17 more117 min
May 17, 12:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Clark, Columbia, Crawford, Dane, Dodge and 24 more97 min
May 17, 2:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Buffalo, Clark, Crawford, Dunn, Eau Claire and 13 more97 min
May 17, 3:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Buffalo, Calumet, Chippewa, Clark and 48 more9 hr
May 17, 6:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrawford, Grant55 min

Nearby

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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.