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Mesoscale Discussion 1189

June 5, 200520 counties in Michigan; Door County, Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 5, 2005, 10:20 PM EDT for 20 counties in Michigan; Door County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 85 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 2005, 10:20 PM EDT (02:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2005, 11:45 PM EDT
In force: 85 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 21 counties

Alger County, MI, Antrim County, MI, Benzie County, MI, Charlevoix County, MI, Cheboygan County, MI, Chippewa County, MI, Crawford County, MI, Delta County, MI, Emmet County, MI, Grand Traverse County, MI, Kalkaska County, MI, Leelanau County, MI, Luce County, MI, Mackinac County, MI, Manistee County, MI, Menominee County, MI, Missaukee County, MI, Otsego County, MI, Schoolcraft County, MI, Wexford County, MI, Door County, WI

The radar

The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:23 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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 229 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: 527 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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, 8:05 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alger, Baraga, Charlevoix, Delta, Dickinson, Gogebic and 9 more	85 min
Jun 5, 8:55 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alger, Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Crawford, Delta and 9 more	4 hr
Jun 6, 6:04 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crawford, Grant, Lafayette	86 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Michigan, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Wisconsin, 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.