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Mesoscale Discussion 1838

July 23, 20059 counties in Illinois; 14 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 23, 2005, 3:10 PM CDT for 9 counties in Illinois; 14 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 95 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 23, 2005, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2005, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 95 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 23 counties

Boone County, IL, DeKalb County, IL, DuPage County, IL, Kane County, IL, Lake County, IL, McHenry County, IL, Ogle County, IL, Stephenson County, IL, Winnebago County, IL, Columbia County, WI, Dane County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Green County, WI, Jefferson County, WI, Kenosha County, WI, Milwaukee County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Racine County, WI, Rock County, WI, Walworth County, WI, Washington County, WI, Waukesha County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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 watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1843 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 197 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
Jul 23, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cook, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall and 3 more	69 min
Jul 23, 4:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane and 6 more	86 min
Jul 23, 9:47 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Buffalo, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire, Jackson and 10 more	88 min
Jul 23, 10:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire and 10 more	5 hr
Jul 23, 12:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Barron, Buffalo, Calumet, Chippewa, Clark and 21 more	96 min
Jul 23, 12:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Brown, Calumet, Columbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac and 17 more	3 hr
Jul 23, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Columbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Jefferson, Kenosha and 8 more	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Wisconsin, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 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.