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Mesoscale Discussion 2088

August 31, 201115 counties in North Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 31, 2011, 10:54 PM CDT for 15 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 96 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 31, 2011, 10:54 PM CDT (03:54 UTC)
Expired: Sep 1, 2011, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 96 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Bottineau County, ND, Burke County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Renville County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Stark County, ND, Ward County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 1855 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -213 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1413 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 306 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 486 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.4

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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
Aug 31, 8:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Billings, Bottineau, Burke, Divide, Dunn, Golden Valley and 10 more	66 min
Aug 31, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Billings, Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Divide, Dunn and 19 more	7 hr
Sep 1, 12:02 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benson, Bottineau, Burleigh, Eddy, Foster, Griggs and 14 more	58 min
Sep 1, 12:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benson, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson and 6 more	6 hr
Sep 1, 3:40 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benson, Cavalier, Eddy, Foster, Grand Forks, Griggs and 6 more	65 min

Nearby

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.