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Mesoscale Discussion 1394

June 19, 200513 counties in Minnesota; 6 counties in North Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 19, 2005, 7:02 PM CDT for 13 counties in Minnesota; 6 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 118 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 19, 2005, 7:02 PM CDT (00:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2005, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 118 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Steele County, ND, Traill County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 501Jun 19, 8:50 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 225 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: 1727 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1461 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 7.9

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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 19, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Koochiching, Saint Louis	5 hr
Jun 20, 5:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Traverse and 1 more	5 hr
Jun 20, 7:39 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Mahnomen, Norman and 4 more	96 min
Jun 20, 9:19 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Mahnomen, Norman and 4 more	56 min
Jun 20, 10:42 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Mahnomen, Norman and 4 more	63 min
Jun 20, 10:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chippewa, Dakota, Douglas and 17 more	5 hr
Jun 20, 12:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 30 more	91 min
Jun 20, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson and 17 more	7 hr
Jun 20, 2:17 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Grant, Hettinger and 4 more	58 min
Jun 20, 3:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Grant, Hettinger and 5 more	5 hr
Jun 20, 4:40 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dickey, Emmons, Golden Valley and 11 more	95 min
Jun 20, 6:28 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Grant, Hettinger, Mercer, Morton, Oliver and 2 more	92 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 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.