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Mesoscale Discussion 370

April 18, 200418 counties in Minnesota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 18, 2004, 3:33 PM CDT for 18 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 117 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 18, 2004, 3:33 PM CDT (20:33 UTC)
Expired: Apr 18, 2004, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 117 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Aitkin County, MN, Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Pine County, MN, Pope County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Todd County, MN, Wright County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 680 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -274 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 697 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 361 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 401 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.3

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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
Apr 17, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston and 7 more	5 hr
Apr 17, 9:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston and 7 more	119 min
Apr 17, 10:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston and 7 more	5 hr
Apr 17, 11:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Big Stone, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Grant, Jackson, Kandiyohi and 14 more	95 min
Apr 17, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi and 16 more	5 hr
Apr 17, 11:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston and 7 more	85 min
Apr 18, 12:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin and 11 more	5 hr
Apr 18, 2:37 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Brown, Carlton and 40 more	53 min
Apr 18, 4:43 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Chisago, Crow Wing and 15 more	32 min
Apr 18, 8:04 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Douglas and 6 more	86 min
Apr 18, 12:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Carlton, Carver and 32 more	2 hr
Apr 18, 1:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Carver, Chippewa and 32 more	6 hr
Apr 18, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Lincoln, Lyon, Pipestone, Rock	6 hr
Apr 18, 4:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore and 15 more	60 min
Apr 18, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Blue Earth, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson and 6 more	5 hr
Apr 18, 5:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Lincoln, Lyon, Pipestone, Rock	2 hr
Apr 18, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Brown, Carver, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin, Le Sueur and 7 more	5 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 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.