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Mesoscale Discussion 1101

June 5, 20049 counties in Minnesota; Grand Forks County, Pembina County, North Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 5, 2004, 2:59 PM CDT for 9 counties in Minnesota; Grand Forks County, Pembina County, North Dakota. It was in force for 91 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 2004, 2:59 PM CDT (19:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2004, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 91 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Beltrami County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Grand Forks County, ND, Pembina County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1102 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 12:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Big Stone, Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon and 10 more	94 min
Jun 5, 3:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anoka, Benton, Chisago, Hennepin, Isanti, Kanabec and 7 more	118 min
Jun 5, 4:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon and 7 more	115 min
Jun 4, 8:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barnes, Dickey, Eddy, Emmons, Foster, Kidder and 6 more	116 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2004 Every mesoscale discussion in 2004

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.