Alert archive / North Dakota / Mesoscale Discussions in 2016
Mesoscale Discussion 1459
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 31, 2016, 7:46 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 89 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 2016, 7:46 PM MDT (01:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2016, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 64 counties
Carter County, MT, Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Burke County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Renville County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Ward County, ND, Wells County, ND, Arthur County, NE, Banner County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Kimball County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Bennett County, SD, Butte County, SD, Corson County, SD, Custer County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Harding County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Todd County, SD, Ziebach County, SD, Crook County, WY, Niobrara County, WY, Weston County, WY
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:46 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 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 1165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2035 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 1:38 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barnes, Dickey, Eddy, Emmons, Foster, Griggs and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 2:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Burleigh, Cass, Cavalier, Dickey and 24 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 1, 5:42 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Burleigh, Cass, Dickey, Eddy and 20 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 3:43 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Oglala Lakota, Pennington | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.