Alert archive / North Dakota / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 1572
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 26, 2008, 12:41 PM MDT for 4 counties in Montana; 19 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 94 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2008, 12:41 PM MDT (18:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2008, 2:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Dawson County, MT, Fallon County, MT, Richland County, MT, Wibaux County, MT, Billings County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Renville County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Ward County, ND, Williams County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:42 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1230 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 25, 7:49 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Horn, Carbon, Carter, Custer, Fallon, Golden Valley and 6 more | 86 min |
| Jun 26, 12:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 22 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 26, 5:28 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Burleigh, Cass, Cavalier, Dickey and 22 more | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 5:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Burleigh, Cass, Dickey, Eddy and 23 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Montana, 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.