Alert archive / North Dakota / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1116
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 6, 2004, 12:09 PM MDT for 39 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 2004, 12:09 PM MDT (18:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2004, 2:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Adams County, ND, Benson County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Burke County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grant County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Kidder County, ND, Logan County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Renville County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Towner County, ND, Walsh County, ND, Ward County, ND, Wells County, ND, Williams County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:08 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
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| Jun 6, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Divide and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 6, 4:52 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Billings, Bowman, Burke, Dunn, McKenzie, Mercer and 4 more | 83 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2004Every 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.