Alert archive / North Dakota / Mesoscale Discussions in 2016
Mesoscale Discussion 1470
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 3, 2016, 2:52 PM CDT for 28 counties in North Dakota; 6 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2016, 2:52 PM CDT (19:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2016, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 34 counties
Benson County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grant County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Kidder County, ND, Logan County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Renville County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Towner County, ND, Ward County, ND, Wells County, ND, Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Meade County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Ziebach County, SD
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -522 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1927 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 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 3, 3:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Bottineau, Burleigh, Cass, Cavalier and 34 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Burleigh, Cass, Cavalier, Dickey and 23 more | 91 min |
| Aug 2, 8:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butte, Haakon, Jones, Lawrence, Meade, Mellette and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Day, Dewey and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Gregory, Jackson, Mellette, Todd, Tripp | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 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.