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Mesoscale Discussion 2244
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 24, 2003, 8:16 PM CDT for 11 counties in Iowa; 14 counties in Minnesota; 5 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 119 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2003, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2003, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties
Clay County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Lyon County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Worth County, IA, Blue Earth County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Martin County, MN, Mower County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Rock County, MN, Steele County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Lincoln County, SD, McCook County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Turner County, SD, Yankton County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -314 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Buena Vista, Butler and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 25, 11:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Chisago, Crow Wing and 13 more | 117 min |
| Aug 25, 4:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beltrami, Clearwater, Itasca, Kittson, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods and 5 more | 62 min |
| Aug 25, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 25, 6:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, Traverse, Wilkin and 1 more | 54 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.