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Mesoscale Discussion 2469

December 14, 200821 counties in Minnesota; 11 counties in North Dakota; 28 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Dec 14, 2008, 12:02 PM CST for 21 counties in Minnesota; 11 counties in North Dakota; 28 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Dec 14, 2008, 12:02 PM CST (18:02 UTC)
Expired: Dec 14, 2008, 4:00 PM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 60 counties

Becker County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Clay County, MN, Grant County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Traill County, ND, Aurora County, SD, Beadle County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Brown County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Davison County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McCook County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Miner County, SD, Moody County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Spink County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:00 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 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 14, 12:07 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Big Stone, Grant, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Pipestone, Stevens and 2 more	4 hr
Dec 14, 5:25 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Big Stone, Cass and 33 more	5 hr
Dec 14, 11:23 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching and 2 more	4 hr
Dec 13, 6:29 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Dunn, Emmons and 13 more	4 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2008 Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2008 Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2008 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.