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Mesoscale Discussion 1049

June 6, 202235 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 6, 2022, 12:20 PM CDT for 35 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 115 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 2022, 12:20 PM CDT (17:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2022, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 115 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe potential...watch unlikely
Chance of a watch: 20%

All 35 counties

Antelope County, NE, Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Boone County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Grant County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Howard County, NE, Keith County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, Madison County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Valley County, NE, Wheeler County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:20 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 314Jun 6, 3:20 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 64 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -184 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1347 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 7:09 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dawson, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Hitchcock, Red Willow	2 hr
Jun 5, 9:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Franklin, Furnas, Harlan, Webster	114 min
Jun 6, 2:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arthur, Blaine, Box Butte, Brown, Cherry, Custer and 15 more	2 hr
Jun 6, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Arthur, Banner, Blaine, Box Butte, Brown, Cherry and 19 more	7 hr
Jun 6, 3:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Butler, Clay, Fillmore, Gage, Hall and 13 more	119 min
Jun 6, 5:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arthur, Banner, Blaine, Box Butte, Brown and 38 more	83 min
Jun 6, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Franklin, Furnas and 14 more	6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2022 Every mesoscale discussion in 2022

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.