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Mesoscale Discussion 1492

June 26, 20055 counties in Minnesota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 26, 2005, 7:40 PM CDT for 5 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 2005, 7:40 PM CDT (00:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2005, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Aitkin County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Cass County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Itasca County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 870 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 771 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.7

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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 26, 7:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods and 9 more	2 hr
Jun 26, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clay, Kittson, Norman, Traverse, Wilkin	8 hr
Jun 26, 9:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Kittson, Norman, Traverse, Wilkin	92 min
Jun 26, 10:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clearwater, Hubbard, Itasca and 8 more	115 min
Jun 26, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard and 11 more	6 hr
Jun 27, 1:51 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Polk, Wilkin	54 min
Jun 27, 2:59 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hubbard, Koochiching	61 min
Jun 27, 12:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Benton, Brown, Carlton, Cass, Chippewa and 22 more	2 hr
Jun 27, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing and 8 more	5 hr
Jun 27, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 31 more	7 hr
Jun 27, 3:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton and 53 more	83 min
Jun 27, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anoka, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Pine, Ramsey and 1 more	3 hr
Jun 27, 6:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge and 25 more	118 min

Nearby

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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.