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Mesoscale Discussion 1005
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 28, 2011, 1:11 PM CDT for 44 counties in Minnesota; Burnett County, Douglas County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 94 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 2011, 1:11 PM CDT (18:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2011, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties
Aitkin County, MN, Anoka County, MN, Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Benton County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Carver County, MN, Cass County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Lake County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Pine County, MN, Polk County, MN, Pope County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wright County, MN, Burnett County, WI, Douglas County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:11 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 918 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton and 24 more | 6 hr |
| May 28, 5:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Carlton, Chisago, Dakota, Goodhue and 9 more | 53 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Wisconsin, 2011Every mesoscale discussion in 2011
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.