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Mesoscale Discussion 623

April 21, 20054 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 21, 2005, 3:34 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 116 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 21, 2005, 3:34 AM CDT (08:34 UTC)
Expired
Apr 21, 2005, 5:30 AM CDT
In force
116 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 65 counties

Adams County, IA, Fremont County, IA, Mills County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Brown County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Worth County, MO, Adams County, NE, Boone County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Clay County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gage County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Valley County, NE, Washington County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 90 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2005-04-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 954 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2005-04-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
954 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
886 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
265 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
4.6

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 20, 7:03 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDes Moines, Henry, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine, Scott87 min
Apr 21, 3:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFremont, Mills85 min
Apr 21, 3:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Cass, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page and 2 more7 hr
Apr 21, 5:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie53 min
Apr 21, 6:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie84 min
Apr 20, 7:25 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Norton, Rawlins and 4 more95 min
Apr 20, 9:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson, Jewell and 13 more61 min
Apr 20, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Douglas and 21 more7 hr
Apr 20, 9:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Kingman and 4 more84 min
Apr 20, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins6 hr
Apr 20, 11:50 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Clay, Cloud, Ellis, Geary, Jackson and 15 more85 min
Apr 21, 12:48 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins and 4 more57 min
Apr 21, 1:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins and 4 more4 hr
Apr 21, 11:13 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Marshall and 4 more2 hr
Apr 21, 11:35 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Cloud, Jackson, Jewell, Marshall, Nemaha and 4 more5 hr
Apr 21, 1:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Linn5 hr
Apr 21, 1:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Riley and 1 more87 min
Apr 21, 4:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison54 min
Apr 21, 6:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Linn7 hr
Apr 21, 12:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Callaway, Cole, Cooper, Crawford, Franklin and 12 more2 hr
Apr 21, 1:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Audrain, Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson and 16 more6 hr
Apr 21, 1:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Cedar and 22 more67 min
Apr 21, 3:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAudrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Franklin, Gasconade and 14 more92 min
Apr 21, 5:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCMcDonald2 hr
Apr 21, 5:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Madison and 8 more53 min
Apr 21, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Iron and 11 more7 hr
Apr 21, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAudrain, Boone, Caldwell, Callaway, Carroll, Chariton and 21 more6 hr
Apr 20, 8:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDeuel6 hr
Apr 20, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Cass, Clay, Fillmore, Gage, Hall and 13 more5 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.