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Mesoscale Discussion 2349
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Nov 5, 2008, 2:51 PM CST for 5 states. It was in force for 114 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 5, 2008, 2:51 PM CST (20:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 5, 2008, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 75 counties
Buena Vista County, IA, Cherokee County, IA, Clay County, IA, Crawford County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Harrison County, IA, Ida County, IA, Lyon County, IA, Monona County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Sac County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Big Stone County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Rock County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND, Dickey County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Burt County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Washington County, NE, Beadle County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Brown County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Clark County, SD, Clay County, SD, Codington County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McCook County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Miner County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Potter County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Spink County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Turner County, SD, Union County, SD, Walworth County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 838 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 2:55 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Pottawattamie | 65 min |
| Nov 5, 5:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford and 11 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 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.