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Mesoscale Discussion 1373
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 14, 2008, 12:35 PM CDT for Jo Daviess County, Illinois; 24 counties in Iowa; 6 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2008, 12:35 PM CDT (17:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2008, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Audubon County, IA, Benton County, IA, Black Hawk County, IA, Boone County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Carroll County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Dallas County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Dubuque County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Greene County, IA, Grundy County, IA, Guthrie County, IA, Hamilton County, IA, Hardin County, IA, Jasper County, IA, Jones County, IA, Linn County, IA, Marshall County, IA, Polk County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, Story County, IA, Tama County, IA, Jo Daviess County, IL, Dane County, WI, Grant County, WI, Green County, WI, Iowa County, WI, Lafayette County, WI, Sauk County, WI
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:39 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1987 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 8:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Massac, Pulaski | 94 min |
| Jun 14, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bureau, Carroll, Fulton, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess and 10 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 24 more | 88 min |
| Jun 14, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clayton, Fayette | 4 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barron, Bayfield, Burnett, Chippewa, Douglas, Dunn and 8 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Wisconsin, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 2008Every mesoscale discussion in 2008
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.