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Mesoscale Discussion 1051

June 25, 20164 counties in Minnesota; 4 counties in North Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 25, 2016, 2:59 AM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota; 4 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 91 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 2016, 2:59 AM CDT (07:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2016, 4:30 AM CDT
In force: 91 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Kittson County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Cavalier County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Walsh County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:59 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 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 284 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1960 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 12:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton and 45 more	115 min
Jun 25, 1:47 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing and 15 more	5 hr
Jun 25, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 18 more	7 hr
Jun 25, 6:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anoka, Carlton, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Pine and 1 more	56 min
Jun 24, 8:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Billings, Burke, Divide, Dunn, Golden Valley, McKenzie and 3 more	114 min
Jun 24, 9:54 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benson, Billings, Bottineau, Burke, Cavalier, Divide and 17 more	96 min
Jun 24, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benson, Bottineau, Burleigh, Cavalier, Eddy, Foster and 23 more	7 hr
Jun 25, 12:04 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Benson, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burleigh and 31 more	116 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2016 Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2016 Every mesoscale discussion in 2016

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.