Alert archive / North Dakota / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 1832
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 14, 2003, 3:48 AM CDT for 26 counties in North Dakota; 9 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2003, 3:48 AM CDT (08:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2003, 4:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Cass County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Steele County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND, Wells County, ND, Brown County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Day County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Spink County, SD, Walworth County, SD
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:49 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
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 2630 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2407 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 8:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burke, Divide, McKenzie, Mountrail, Renville, Ward and 1 more | 1 min |
| Jul 13, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cass, Grand Forks, Ransom, Richland, Sargent, Traill | 5 hr |
| Jul 14, 2:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benson, Cavalier, Eddy, Foster, Grand Forks, Griggs and 7 more | 65 min |
| Jul 14, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson, Pembina, Steele, Traill and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson, Pembina, Steele, Traill and 1 more | 85 min |
| Jul 13, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Brown, Brule, Buffalo, Campbell and 22 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 13, 10:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Clark, Day, Edmunds, Faulk, Spink | 84 min |
| Jul 14, 12:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant and 4 more | 36 min |
| Jul 14, 1:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Lincoln, McCook, Minnehaha, Moody, Turner and 2 more | 113 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2003Every 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.