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Mesoscale Discussion 1020
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 26, 2005, 1:22 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 113 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2005, 1:22 PM CDT (18:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2005, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 117 counties
Black Hawk County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Buena Vista County, IA, Butler County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Cherokee County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Clay County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Howard County, IA, Humboldt County, IA, Ida County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Lyon County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Sac County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Webster County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Worth County, IA, Wright County, IA, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chippewa 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, Jackson County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker 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, Swift County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Boyd County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Holt County, NE, Knox County, NE, Aurora County, SD, Beadle County, SD, Bon Homme County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Brule County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Clark County, SD, Clay County, SD, Codington County, SD, Davison County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Grant County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, Lyman County, SD, McCook County, SD, Miner County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Potter County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Spink County, SD, Sully County, SD, Turner County, SD, Union County, SD, Yankton County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1200 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 5:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan and 35 more | 83 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 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.