Alert archive / North Dakota / Mesoscale Discussions in 2014
Mesoscale Discussion 233
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 31, 2014, 12:08 PM CDT for 7 counties in Minnesota; 16 counties in North Dakota; Campbell County, South Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2014, 12:08 PM CDT (17:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2014, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties
Kittson County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Steele County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND, Campbell County, SD
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:08 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 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 292 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
- 495 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 501 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 610 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 6:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Norman, Polk | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chippewa, Cottonwood, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray and 5 more | 115 min |
| Mar 31, 3:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Traverse, Wilkin | 5 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Watonwan | 113 min |
| Mar 31, 6:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore and 15 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 9:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Dunn, Golden Valley and 9 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in South 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.