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Mesoscale Discussion 68
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 5, 2019, 1:20 PM CST for Emmet County, Kossuth County, Winnebago County, Iowa; 25 counties in Minnesota; 11 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 5, 2019, 1:20 PM CST (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2019, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Emmet County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Mower County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Steele County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Barron County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 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 nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 798 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 1:37 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Delaware, Des Moines and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 5, 5:56 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dodge, Jefferson, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine, Rock and 3 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Wisconsin, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2019Every mesoscale discussion in 2019
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.