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Mesoscale Discussion 187

February 24, 2007Allamakee County, Iowa; Houston County, Winona County, Minnesota; 23 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 24, 2007, 12:08 AM CST for Allamakee County, Iowa; Houston County, Winona County, Minnesota; 23 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Feb 24, 2007, 12:08 AM CST (06:08 UTC)
Expired
Feb 24, 2007, 4:15 AM CST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties

Allamakee County, IA, Houston County, MN, Winona County, MN, Adams County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Clark County, WI, Columbia County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Portage County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Vernon County, WI, Washington County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Winnebago County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 199 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2007-02-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2007-02-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1291 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Feb 23, 7:59 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Howard, Winneshiek5 hr
Feb 24, 7:25 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cedar and 39 more4 hr
Feb 24, 12:19 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan and 42 more5 hr
Feb 24, 1:34 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Lyon, O'Brien and 3 more5 hr

Nearby

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