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Mesoscale Discussion 1180

June 5, 200522 counties in Indiana; 10 counties in Michigan; Williams County, Ohio

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 5, 2005, 2:33 PM EST for 22 counties in Indiana; 10 counties in Michigan; Williams County, Ohio. It was in force for 117 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 2005, 2:33 PM EST (19:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2005, 4:30 PM EST
In force: 117 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 33 counties

Allen County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clinton County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Noble County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Wabash County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Barry County, MI, Branch County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Cass County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Ingham County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Williams County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 228 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: 321 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -172 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1129 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 11:55 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 67 more	65 min
Jun 5, 1:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone and 63 more	7 hr
Jun 5, 5:13 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dearborn	62 min
Jun 5, 5:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Franklin, Union	6 hr
Jun 4, 7:15 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baraga, Gogebic, Iron, Ontonagon	90 min
Jun 5, 12:15 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alcona, Allegan, Alpena, Antrim, Arenac, Barry and 44 more	7 hr
Jun 5, 12:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Gogebic	6 hr
Jun 5, 3:21 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baraga, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Menominee and 1 more	84 min
Jun 5, 3:40 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baraga, Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, Marquette, Menominee	5 hr
Jun 5, 6:50 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Genesee, Lapeer, Lenawee, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe and 6 more	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Michigan, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2005 Every 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.