IEM Daily Feature
Monday, 28 April 2003

Clipped by a MCS

Posted: 28 Apr 2003 08:27 AM


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NEXRAD composite for 8 AM 28 Apr 2003.
Midwest composite NEXRAD shows a bubble of rainfall just clipping southern Iowa and a stratiform band of rainfall in Central Iowa. That blob in Missouri is called a Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) and like most teenagers, they live at night. MCS's bring Iowa a majority of its rainfall for the year during the night.