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Mesoscale Discussion 1
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 1, 2005, 6:48 AM CST for 35 counties in Iowa; 37 counties in Minnesota; 8 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 1, 2005, 6:48 AM CST (12:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 1, 2005, 10:45 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 80 counties
Allamakee County, IA, Benton County, IA, Black Hawk County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Butler County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Grundy County, IA, Hamilton County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Hardin County, IA, Howard County, IA, Humboldt County, IA, Iowa County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Linn County, IA, Marshall County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, Story County, IA, Tama County, IA, Webster County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Worth County, IA, Wright County, IA, Anoka County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Houston County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mower County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Pope 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, Wabasha County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Winona County, MN, Wright County, MN, Buffalo County, WI, Crawford County, WI, Grant County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Vernon County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:48 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 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 1502 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 12:32 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Buena Vista, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clay, Dickinson and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 1, 12:45 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 26 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 1, 7:25 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 1, 1:01 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Clay and 25 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Wisconsin, 2005Every mesoscale discussion in 2005
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.