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Mesoscale Discussion 2165
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 5, 2004, 2:34 PM CDT for 32 counties in Iowa; 33 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 5, 2004, 2:34 PM CDT (19:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2004, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 65 counties
Audubon County, IA, Boone County, IA, Buena Vista County, IA, Butler County, IA, Calhoun County, IA, Carroll County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Clay County, IA, Crawford County, IA, Dallas County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Greene County, IA, Guthrie County, IA, Hamilton County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Hardin County, IA, Humboldt County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Marshall County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Sac County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Story County, IA, Webster County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Worth County, IA, Wright County, IA, Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mower County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Steele County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wright County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista and 51 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 5, 5:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista and 55 more | 96 min |
| Sep 5, 4:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Benton, Carlton, Cass and 19 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 5, 6:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 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.