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Mesoscale Discussion 196
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 8, 2006, 7:46 PM CST for 16 counties in Illinois; 23 counties in Iowa; Walworth County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 89 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 2006, 7:46 PM CST (01:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2006, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties
Benton County, IA, Cedar County, IA, Clinton County, IA, Davis County, IA, Des Moines County, IA, Henry County, IA, Iowa County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Jasper County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Johnson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Linn County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Mahaska County, IA, Marion County, IA, Muscatine County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, Scott County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Washington County, IA, Boone County, IL, Bureau County, IL, Carroll County, IL, DeKalb County, IL, Henry County, IL, Jo Daviess County, IL, Kane County, IL, Kendall County, IL, Lee County, IL, McHenry County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Ogle County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Stephenson County, IL, Whiteside County, IL, Winnebago County, IL, Walworth County, WI
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 10:30 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Massac, Pulaski | 2 hr |
| Mar 9, 12:55 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Edwards, Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 4:44 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 9 more | 61 min |
| Mar 9, 5:18 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 8 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Wisconsin, 2006Every 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.