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Mesoscale Discussion 2088
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 23, 2004, 5:30 PM CDT for 13 counties in Iowa; 35 counties in Minnesota; 12 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2004, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2004, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 60 counties
Allamakee County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Howard County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Lyon County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Worth County, IA, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Houston County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Mower County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Rock County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Steele County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Winona County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Brookings 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, Miner County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 799 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 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 23, 2:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buena Vista, Butler and 47 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 22, 7:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Jackson, Mellette, Oglala Lakota, Pennington | 118 min |
| Aug 23, 2:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Brule, Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey and 20 more | 113 min |
| Aug 23, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk, Perkins and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bennett, Brule, Buffalo, Gregory, Haakon, Hand and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 6:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk, Perkins and 3 more | 88 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2004Every 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.