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Mesoscale Discussion 983
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 11, 2017, 2:02 AM CDT for 21 counties in Minnesota; 17 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2017, 2:02 AM CDT (07:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2017, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 95%
All 38 counties
Big Stone County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Swift County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Beadle County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hand County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Miner County, SD, Moody County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Spink County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:02 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 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 4:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lincoln, Lyon, Pipestone | 60 min |
| Jun 11, 5:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Goodhue and 16 more | 84 min |
| Jun 11, 6:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 11, 9:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Chisago, Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue and 10 more | 60 min |
| Jun 11, 6:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chisago, Dakota, Dodge, Goodhue, Olmsted, Ramsey and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 9:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Brule, Buffalo, Butte, Custer and 22 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buffalo, Butte, Custer, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk and 17 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 10, 11:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brule, Buffalo, Butte, Custer, Dewey, Edmunds and 17 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 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.