Alert archive / North Dakota / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 2277
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 22, 2008, 10:21 PM CDT for 6 counties in Minnesota; 27 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 22, 2008, 10:21 PM CDT (03:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2008, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties
Kittson County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Grant County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Morton County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Steele County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Towner County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND, Wells County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:22 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 nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 1686 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake, Roseau | 8 hr |
| Sep 23, 1:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake and 1 more | 23 min |
| Sep 23, 1:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Carlton, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 19 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 22, 10:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Sargent | 62 min |
| Sep 23, 1:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benson, Burleigh, Eddy, Emmons, Foster, Griggs and 16 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 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.