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Mesoscale Discussion 1384
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 12, 2013, 6:28 PM CDT for 29 counties in Minnesota; 5 counties in North Dakota; 10 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 92 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 2013, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2013, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Cass County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Pope County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Cass County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Traill County, ND, Brown County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Marshall County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Spink County, SD
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -429 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1187 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 3:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Big Stone, Clay, Clearwater, Grant and 11 more | 60 min |
| Jul 12, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Big Stone, Cass, Chippewa, Clay and 26 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 11, 7:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Dunn and 17 more | 116 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2013Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2013Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2013Every mesoscale discussion in 2013
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.