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Mesoscale Discussion 2182
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 12, 2005, 9:36 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 84 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 12, 2005, 9:36 PM CDT (02:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 2005, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 84 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 75 counties
Dickinson County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Lyon County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Anoka County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mower County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Rock County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Steele County, MN, Swift County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Bon Homme County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Clay County, SD, Codington County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, McCook County, SD, Miner County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Turner County, SD, Yankton County, SD, Buffalo County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:37 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 968 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dickinson, Lyon, Osceola | 6 hr |
| Sep 13, 1:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek, Worth | 56 min |
| Sep 13, 11:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allamakee, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 48 more | 116 min |
| Sep 13, 11:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk and 51 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 13, 3:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Chickasaw, Clayton and 8 more | 95 min |
| Sep 13, 1:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Winona | 2 hr |
| Sep 13, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Winona | 4 hr |
| Sep 13, 12:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chippewa, Florence, Forest, Iron, Langlade, Lincoln and 10 more | 26 min |
| Sep 13, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Calumet, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Jefferson and 13 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 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.