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Mesoscale Discussion 1137

June 8, 200423 counties in Minnesota; 13 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 8, 2004, 12:42 AM CDT for 23 counties in Minnesota; 13 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 2004, 12:42 AM CDT (05:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2004, 1:45 AM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 36 counties

Anoka County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Washington County, MN, Winona County, MN, Wright County, MN, Barron County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Clark County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:43 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 408Jun 8, 12:55 AM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 83 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: 1588 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -129 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2423 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

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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 7, 7:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Carver, Chisago and 14 more	2 hr
Jun 7, 9:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, McLeod and 8 more	119 min
Jun 7, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Aitkin, Benton, Big Stone, Carlton, Chippewa, Cook and 21 more	6 hr
Jun 8, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin and 10 more	3 hr
Jun 8, 2:08 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Chippewa, Cook, Crow Wing and 14 more	67 min
Jun 8, 3:02 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Carver, Chisago and 23 more	58 min
Jun 8, 3:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue and 10 more	2 hr
Jun 8, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Freeborn	6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in Wisconsin, 2004 Every mesoscale discussion in 2004

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.