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Mesoscale Discussion 1510

June 25, 20036 counties in Michigan; 16 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 25, 2003, 6:14 PM EDT for 6 counties in Michigan; 16 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 91 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 2003, 6:14 PM EDT (22:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2003, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 91 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 22 counties

Alger County, MI, Delta County, MI, Dickinson County, MI, Iron County, MI, Marquette County, MI, Menominee County, MI, Brown County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Door County, WI, Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Winnebago County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 71 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: 1761 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1014 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 2:42 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baraga, Dickinson, Houghton, Iron, Marquette, Menominee	2 hr
Jun 25, 3:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alger, Baraga, Delta, Dickinson, Iron, Marquette and 1 more	5 hr
Jun 24, 8:09 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Burnett, Dunn, Pierce, Polk, Saint Croix	66 min
Jun 24, 9:15 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Barron, Burnett, Douglas, Dunn, Pierce, Polk and 2 more	6 hr
Jun 24, 11:27 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Pierce, Polk, Saint Croix	93 min
Jun 25, 1:37 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Eau Claire, Jackson, La Crosse and 11 more	113 min
Jun 25, 12:50 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Grant, Green, Green Lake and 8 more	115 min
Jun 25, 1:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Columbia, Crawford, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Grant and 14 more	6 hr
Jun 25, 3:43 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Green, Iowa, Jefferson and 4 more	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Wisconsin, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in Michigan, 2003 Every mesoscale discussion in 2003

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.