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Mesoscale Discussion 1135
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 4, 2016, 5:35 PM CDT for 18 counties in Minnesota; 28 counties in North Dakota; 8 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 85 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 2016, 5:35 PM CDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 54 counties
Becker County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Grant County, MN, Kittson 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, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Cass County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Dickey 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, Pembina County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Towner County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND, Wells County, ND, Brown County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Day County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Walworth County, SD
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 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
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 378 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1829 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 1:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 13 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2016Every 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.