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Mesoscale Discussion 1244

June 5, 200318 counties in Minnesota; 9 counties in North Dakota; 16 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 5, 2003, 12:59 PM CDT for 18 counties in Minnesota; 9 counties in North Dakota; 16 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 2003, 12:59 PM CDT (17:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2003, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 43 counties

Becker County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Clay County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Pope County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND, Dickey County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Traill County, ND, Brookings County, SD, Brown County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McCook County, SD, Miner County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Roberts County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 138 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1257 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2003 Every mesoscale discussion in 2003

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.