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Mesoscale Discussion 1611

July 3, 20058 counties in Minnesota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 3, 2005, 5:34 AM CDT for 8 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 3, 2005, 5:34 AM CDT (10:34 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2005, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Beltrami County, MN, Cook County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Lake County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:37 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

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 59 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: 1756 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1445 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 5.1

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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
Jul 2, 8:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more	2 hr
Jul 2, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Becker, Big Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Douglas, Grant and 17 more	7 hr
Jul 2, 11:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more	2 hr
Jul 3, 1:12 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beltrami, Clearwater, Itasca, Kittson, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods and 5 more	33 min
Jul 3, 1:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Beltrami, Clearwater, Itasca, Koochiching, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more	4 hr
Jul 3, 3:27 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton and 56 more	33 min
Jul 3, 4:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anoka, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 37 more	5 hr
Jul 3, 6:39 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 33 more	66 min
Jul 3, 8:09 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower and 4 more	66 min
Jul 3, 1:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Faribault, Freeborn and 10 more	3 hr
Jul 3, 6:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and 2 more	118 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 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.