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Mesoscale Discussion 1209

June 16, 20064 counties in Iowa; 34 counties in Minnesota; 21 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 16, 2006, 7:41 PM CDT for 4 counties in Iowa; 34 counties in Minnesota; 21 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 94 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2006, 7:41 PM CDT (00:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2006, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 94 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 59 counties

Emmet County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Anoka County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Mower County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Pine County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Steele County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Winona County, MN, Wright County, MN, Barron County, WI, Bayfield County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Burnett County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Clark County, WI, Douglas County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Iron County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Price County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Sawyer County, WI, Taylor County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Washburn County, WI

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 46 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: 576 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 946 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.3

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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
Jun 16, 10:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allamakee, Bremer, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Floyd, Hancock and 5 more	60 min
Jun 17, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Fremont, Page	5 hr
Jun 17, 11:54 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anoka, Chisago, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin, Isanti and 3 more	96 min
Jun 17, 12:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Burnett, Chippewa, Clark and 22 more	7 hr
Jun 17, 4:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Burnett, Chippewa, Clark and 24 more	88 min
Jun 17, 6:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Burnett, Chippewa, Clark and 20 more	24 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2006 Mesoscale Discussions in Wisconsin, 2006 Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2006 Every mesoscale discussion in 2006

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.