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Mesoscale Discussion 1043

June 7, 200715 counties in Minnesota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 7, 2007, 4:11 PM CDT for 15 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2007, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2007, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Benton County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 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 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 79 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: 72 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -470 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1082 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 6, 8:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Big Stone, Clay, Grant, Lac qui Parle, Norman, Otter Tail and 5 more	61 min
Jun 6, 8:49 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Becker, Big Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas and 16 more	7 hr
Jun 6, 10:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Pipestone, Rock	2 hr
Jun 6, 11:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Lac qui Parle and 8 more	2 hr
Jun 7, 2:02 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago and 20 more	58 min
Jun 7, 3:05 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Big Stone, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray and 7 more	55 min
Jun 7, 3:36 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen and 8 more	54 min
Jun 7, 9:11 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue and 7 more	64 min
Jun 7, 10:48 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas, Grant and 9 more	87 min
Jun 7, 11:11 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Big Stone, Cass, Clay and 20 more	7 hr
Jun 7, 11:34 AM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	Carlton, Chisago, Cook, Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore and 14 more	10 hr
Jun 7, 2:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Grant and 10 more	116 min
Jun 7, 3:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Houston	97 min
Jun 7, 5:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Saint Louis	53 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2007 Every mesoscale discussion in 2007

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.