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Mesoscale Discussion 302
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 11, 2019, 2:34 AM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 2019, 2:34 AM CDT (07:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2019, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 95 counties
Dickinson County, IA, Lyon County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Big Stone County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Rock County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Steele County, MN, Swift County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Antelope County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Holt County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Knox County, NE, Loup County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Rock County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Aurora County, SD, Beadle County, SD, Bon Homme County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Brule County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Clark County, SD, Clay County, SD, Codington County, SD, Davison County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Grant County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Jones County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, Lyman County, SD, McCook County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Miner County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Spink County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD, Turner County, SD, Union County, SD, Yankton County, SD, Pierce County, WI
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:34 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 nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 274 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
- 703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 675 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1018 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 10:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 2 hr |
| Apr 11, 9:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Benton, Big Stone, Cass, Chippewa, Clay and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 3:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 10, 10:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Brown, Custer, Dawson, Frontier, Garfield and 16 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2019Every mesoscale discussion in 2019
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.