Alert archive / Minnesota / Mesoscale Discussions in 2005
Mesoscale Discussion 1730
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 11, 2005, 3:58 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 92 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 2005, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2005, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Cherokee County, IA, Clay County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Lyon County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Brown County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rock County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Union County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 365 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 2:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 10, 10:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Cherry, Garden, Grant, Hooker, Keith and 2 more | 84 min |
| Jul 11, 3:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden and 4 more | 116 min |
| Jul 11, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Box Butte, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne, Dawes and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 10, 7:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk, Haakon and 10 more | 96 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.