Alert archive / North Dakota / Mesoscale Discussions in 2009
Mesoscale Discussion 1349
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 26, 2009, 9:19 PM CDT for Clay County, Norman County, Polk County, Minnesota; 18 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2009, 9:19 PM CDT (02:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2009, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Clay County, MN, Norman County, MN, Polk County, MN, Barnes 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, McIntosh County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Traill County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:23 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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 1750 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
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 26, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Pipestone, Rock and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 11:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lincoln, Lyon, Pipestone, Rock, Yellow Medicine | 59 min |
| Jun 27, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Clay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 27, 3:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Grant, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 4 more | 59 min |
| Jun 27, 5:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas, Grant and 15 more | 58 min |
| Jun 27, 12:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Barnes, Bowman, Burleigh, Cass, Dickey and 17 more | 53 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2009Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2009Every mesoscale discussion in 2009
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.