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Mesoscale Discussion 1236

June 7, 200515 counties in Minnesota; Richland County, Sargent County, North Dakota; 12 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 7, 2005, 11:46 PM CDT for 15 counties in Minnesota; Richland County, Sargent County, North Dakota; 12 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2005, 11:46 PM CDT (04:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2005, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 29 counties

Big Stone County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Pope County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Brookings County, SD, Codington County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, McCook County, SD, Miner County, SD, Moody County, SD, Roberts County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:47 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 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 179 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -232 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 7, 7:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Mower and 6 more	92 min
Jun 7, 9:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Traverse, Wilkin	57 min
Jun 7, 9:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Becker, Big Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Douglas, Grant and 17 more	7 hr
Jun 7, 10:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Goodhue and 13 more	97 min
Jun 8, 12:39 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 34 more	96 min
Jun 8, 1:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago and 33 more	6 hr
Jun 8, 3:46 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anoka, Blue Earth, Carlton, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 25 more	89 min
Jun 8, 3:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Cass, Clearwater and 19 more	116 min
Jun 7, 7:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Emmons, McIntosh, Sioux	91 min
Jun 7, 11:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bon Homme, Clay, Union	5 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2005 Every mesoscale discussion in 2005

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.