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Mesoscale Discussion 1525
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 27, 2003, 5:44 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 91 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 2003, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2003, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 91 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 110 counties
Allamakee County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Buena Vista County, IA, Butler County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Cherokee County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Clay County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Howard County, IA, Humboldt County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Lyon County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Worth County, IA, Wright 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, Douglas County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Houston 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, Mower County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Rock County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Steele County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Winona County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Brookings County, SD, Brown County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McCook County, SD, Miner County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Spink County, SD, Buffalo County, WI, Crawford County, WI, Grant County, WI, Iowa County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Richland County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Vernon County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 1466 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Calhoun and 24 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 27, 12:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Douglas, Grant and 12 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Douglas, Grant and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 27, 5:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Bennett, Bon Homme, Brule, Buffalo and 31 more | 96 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2003Every 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.