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Mesoscale Discussion 1379
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 14, 2008, 6:04 PM CDT for 44 counties in Minnesota; 28 counties in North Dakota; Marshall County, Roberts County, South Dakota. It was in force for 86 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2008, 6:04 PM CDT (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2008, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 74 counties
Aitkin County, MN, Anoka County, MN, Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Benton County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Carver County, MN, Cass County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Pope County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Wright County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Cass County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McHenry County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Steele County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Towner County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND, Wells County, ND, Marshall County, SD, Roberts County, SD
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 249 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
- 1202 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Mahnomen and 11 more | 26 min |
| Jun 14, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Big Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Clearwater and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Carver, Cass and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 1:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benson, Burke, Burleigh, Divide, Dunn, Eddy and 20 more | 89 min |
| Jun 14, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Dickey, Divide, Dunn and 23 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2008Every mesoscale discussion in 2008
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.