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Mesoscale Discussion 1765
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 11, 2008, 5:50 PM CDT for 45 counties in Minnesota; 7 counties in North Dakota; Grant County, Roberts County, South Dakota. It was in force for 85 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 2008, 5:50 PM CDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2008, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 54 counties
Aitkin County, MN, Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Benton County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Cass County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Lake of the Woods 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, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Roseau 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, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Cass County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Richland County, ND, Steele County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND, Grant County, SD, Roberts County, SD
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 890 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1222 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 393 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Grant, Mahnomen, Norman and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 10, 9:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Grant, Mahnomen, Norman and 3 more | 91 min |
| Jul 10, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 10, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 30 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 11, 2:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 32 more | 60 min |
| Jul 11, 4:11 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Roseau | 94 min |
| Jul 11, 6:36 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more | 24 min |
| Jul 11, 7:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Koochiching, Lake of the Woods | 63 min |
| Jul 11, 12:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas, Grant and 15 more | 83 min |
| Jul 11, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Big Stone, Cass and 39 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 11, 3:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Cottonwood, Jackson, Lyon, Martin, Murray and 5 more | 92 min |
| Jul 11, 4:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Beltrami, Benton, Cass, Chippewa, Clearwater and 18 more | 88 min |
| Jul 11, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Faribault, Jackson, Le Sueur and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 11, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Carlton, Carver, Chisago, Cook, Dakota and 9 more | 7 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.