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Mesoscale Discussion 1508

July 5, 2011Delta County, Dickinson County, Menominee County, Michigan; Houston County, Minnesota; 27 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 5, 2011, 1:29 PM EDT for Delta County, Dickinson County, Menominee County, Michigan; Houston County, Minnesota; 27 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 91 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 2011, 1:29 PM EDT (17:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2011, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
91 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties

Delta County, MI, Dickinson County, MI, Menominee County, MI, Houston County, MN, Adams County, WI, Brown County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Columbia County, WI, Crawford County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Door County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Juneau County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Portage County, WI, Richland County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Vernon County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Winnebago County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:30 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 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 58 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 12:00Z on 2011-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 144 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2011-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
144 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-148 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1423 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
153 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
Jul 4, 8:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Carlton, Cass and 38 more9 hr
Jul 4, 11:42 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAitkin, Becker, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Clay and 19 more2 hr
Jul 5, 12:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBig Stone, Cottonwood, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone and 1 more5 hr
Jul 5, 4:32 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCNobles, Rock88 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Wisconsin, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Michigan, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 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.