Alert archive / Minnesota / Mesoscale Discussions in 2012
Mesoscale Discussion 1159
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 14, 2012, 3:01 AM CDT for 8 counties in Minnesota; Dickey County, Richland County, Sargent County, North Dakota; 6 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 89 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2012, 3:01 AM CDT (08:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2012, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Big Stone County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pope County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Dickey County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Brown County, SD, Day County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Roberts County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:03 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 1191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
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 13, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Norman, Traverse, Wilkin | 5 hr |
| Jun 14, 7:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin and 9 more | 113 min |
| Jun 14, 1:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Faribault, Jackson and 19 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake and 1 more | 89 min |
| Jun 14, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Barnes, Cass, Dickey, Emmons, Grant and 10 more | 86 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2012Every mesoscale discussion in 2012
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.