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Mesoscale Discussion 2182
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 28, 2008, 2:48 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 87 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 2008, 2:48 PM CDT (19:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2008, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 70 counties
Appanoose County, IA, Davis County, IA, Des Moines County, IA, Henry County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Lee County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Muscatine County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Washington County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Adams County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Warren County, IL, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Miami County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clark County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Marion County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Shelby County, MO, Sullivan County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 182 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 262 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
- 1477 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -267 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1416 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 6:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Fulton and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 27, 10:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buena Vista and 44 more | 119 min |
| Aug 28, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Henry and 12 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 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.