Alert archive / Iowa / Mesoscale Discussions in 2005
Mesoscale Discussion 1022
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 26, 2005, 5:07 PM CDT for 41 counties in Iowa; 4 counties in Nebraska; Clay County, Union County, South Dakota. It was in force for 83 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2005, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2005, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 83 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 47 counties
Audubon County, IA, Benton County, IA, Black Hawk County, IA, Boone County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Buena Vista County, IA, Butler County, IA, Calhoun County, IA, Carroll County, IA, Cherokee County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Crawford County, IA, Dallas County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Greene County, IA, Grundy County, IA, Guthrie County, IA, Hamilton County, IA, Hardin County, IA, Ida County, IA, Jasper County, IA, Linn County, IA, Marshall County, IA, Monona County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Polk County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, Sac County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Story County, IA, Tama County, IA, Webster County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Wright County, IA, Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Wayne County, NE, Clay County, SD, Union County, SD
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 1719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 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, 1:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Black Hawk, Bremer, Buena Vista, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee and 27 more | 113 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 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.