Alert archive / North Dakota / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003

Mesoscale Discussion 2181

August 18, 20038 counties in North Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 18, 2003, 2:48 PM MDT for 8 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 18, 2003, 2:48 PM MDT (20:48 UTC)
Expired: Aug 18, 2003, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Billings County, ND, Dunn County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Stark County, ND, Ward County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 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 watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 870Aug 18, 4:05 PM MDT

The text

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

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 18, 4:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benson, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Cavalier, Dunn and 20 more	5 hr

Nearby

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.