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Mesoscale Discussion 1668

July 20, 20118 counties in Minnesota; Grand Forks County, North Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 20, 2011, 10:43 AM CDT for 8 counties in Minnesota; Grand Forks County, North Dakota. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 20, 2011, 10:43 AM CDT (15:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 2011, 11:45 AM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Beltrami County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Grand Forks County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:43 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

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 191 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3428 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -134 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.5

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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
Jul 20, 5:02 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Clearwater, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman and 4 more	88 min
Jul 20, 5:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Marshall and 5 more	6 hr
Jul 20, 6:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching and 2 more	95 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2011 Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2011 Every mesoscale discussion in 2011

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.