IEM Daily Feature
Monday, 07 July 2003

MCC, MCS, MCV equals MESS

Posted: 07 Jul 2003 08:10 AM


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Composite NEXRAD 8 AM 7 July 2003.
If you have been paying attention at all to the weather lately, you probably have heard your favorite meteorologist talk about a mesoscale convective {complex, system, or vortex}. All of these systems lead to a mess when trying to analyze the surface situation. Midwest composite shows a MCS exiting the state this morning, but more storms are expected to form today.