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Mesoscale Discussion 891

May 25, 200720 counties in North Dakota; 35 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 25, 2007, 4:40 PM MDT for 20 counties in North Dakota; 35 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 2007, 4:40 PM MDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2007, 5:45 PM MDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 55 counties

Adams County, ND, Barnes County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Morton County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Bennett County, SD, Brown County, SD, Brule County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Butte County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD, Custer County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Hand County, SD, Harding County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Meade County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Potter County, SD, Spink County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD, Walworth County, SD, Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 176 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 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 nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 176 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2007-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2007-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1317 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
248 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 12:44 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Emmons, Grant, Hettinger, Sioux61 min
May 25, 1:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Bowman, Burleigh, Emmons, Grant, Hettinger and 7 more7 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2007Every mesoscale discussion in 2007

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.