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Mesoscale Discussion 1095
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 20, 2014, 2:52 PM CDT for 23 counties in Minnesota; Richland County, North Dakota. It was in force for 113 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 2014, 2:52 PM CDT (19:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2014, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 24 counties
Aitkin County, MN, Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Cass County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Todd County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Richland County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 196 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 20, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Big Stone and 41 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 20, 6:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Cass, Clearwater and 13 more | 89 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2014Every mesoscale discussion in 2014
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.