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Mesoscale Discussion 1722

August 11, 200732 counties in Minnesota; 7 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 11, 2007, 3:00 AM CDT for 32 counties in Minnesota; 7 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 11, 2007, 3:00 AM CDT (08:00 UTC)
Expired: Aug 11, 2007, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 39 counties

Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville 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, Winona County, MN, Wright County, MN, Buffalo County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:01 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 21 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: 639 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -156 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1768 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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
Aug 11, 12:58 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 32 more	62 min
Aug 11, 1:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anoka, Benton, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 27 more	4 hr
Aug 11, 5:15 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Goodhue, Le Sueur, Rice, Wabasha, Winona	30 min
Aug 11, 3:01 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Dakota and 33 more	89 min
Aug 11, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Aitkin, Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton, Carver and 27 more	6 hr
Aug 11, 6:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cook, Lake	119 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2007 Mesoscale Discussions in Wisconsin, 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.