Alert archive / South Dakota / Mesoscale Discussions in 2014
Mesoscale Discussion 235
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 31, 2014, 3:49 PM CDT for 5 counties in Minnesota; 4 counties in North Dakota; 23 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2014, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2014, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Becker County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Clay County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Dickey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Beadle County, SD, Brown County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Day County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Miner County, SD, Potter County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Spink County, SD, Sully County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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 nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 72 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, 12:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake and 1 more | 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, 3:52 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 South Dakota, 2014Mesoscale 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.