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Mesoscale Discussion 175

March 5, 20045 counties in Michigan; 17 counties in Minnesota; 31 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 5, 2004, 3:02 AM EST for 5 counties in Michigan; 17 counties in Minnesota; 31 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 5, 2004, 3:02 AM EST (08:02 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 2004, 7:00 AM EST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 53 counties

Delta County, MI, Dickinson County, MI, Iron County, MI, Menominee County, MI, Schoolcraft County, MI, Anoka County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Steele County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Barron County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Clark County, WI, Door County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Portage County, WI, Price County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Sawyer County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Taylor County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Vilas County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:05 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

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 395 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 439 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 86 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 274 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 496 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Wisconsin, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in Michigan, 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.