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Mesoscale Discussion 1582

July 2, 200319 counties in Minnesota; Codington County, Grant County, Roberts County, South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 2, 2003, 3:30 PM CDT for 19 counties in Minnesota; Codington County, Grant County, Roberts County, South Dakota. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 2, 2003, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2003, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 22 counties

Benton County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pope County, MN, Renville County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Codington County, SD, Grant County, SD, Roberts County, SD

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 199 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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.

Tornado Watch 623Jul 2, 7:25 PM CDT

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
Jul 2, 11:00 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake	60 min
Jul 2, 11:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall and 7 more	6 hr
Jul 2, 1:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater and 18 more	2 hr
Jul 2, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Hubbard, Itasca and 4 more	5 hr
Jul 2, 5:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Chisago and 14 more	61 min
Jul 2, 12:41 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Harding, Perkins	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.