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Mesoscale Discussion 632

May 10, 200425 counties in Illinois; 8 counties in Iowa; 5 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 10, 2004, 11:05 AM CDT for 25 counties in Illinois; 8 counties in Iowa; 5 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 115 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 2004, 11:05 AM CDT (16:05 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 2004, 1:00 PM CDT
In force
115 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties

Cedar County, IA, Clinton County, IA, Dubuque County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Muscatine County, IA, Scott County, IA, Boone County, IL, Bureau County, IL, Carroll County, IL, Cook County, IL, DeKalb County, IL, DuPage County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Henry County, IL, Jo Daviess County, IL, Kane County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Kendall County, IL, Lake County, IL, LaSalle County, IL, Lee County, IL, McHenry County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Ogle County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Stark County, IL, Stephenson County, IL, Whiteside County, IL, Will County, IL, Winnebago County, IL, Green County, WI, Kenosha County, WI, Lafayette County, WI, Rock County, WI, Walworth County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 97 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2004-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 212 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2004-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
212 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1187 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 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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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 9:04 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKankakee56 min
May 10, 6:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCook, DeWitt, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois and 5 more115 min
May 9, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCherokee, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth and 2 more4 hr
May 9, 8:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDickinson, Emmet, Howard, Lyon, Mitchell, Osceola and 2 more2 hr
May 9, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn and 26 more7 hr
May 9, 10:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Brown, Calumet, Columbia, Fond du Lac, Green Lake and 13 more114 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Wisconsin, 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.