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Mesoscale Discussion 1472
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 3, 2016, 6:29 PM CDT for 29 counties in North Dakota; 14 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 91 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2016, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 91 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties
Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Burleigh 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, Rolette County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Sheridan 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, Faulk County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Potter County, SD, Spink County, SD, Sully County, SD, Walworth County, SD
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 128 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, 2:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benson, Bottineau, Burleigh, Cavalier, Eddy, Emmons and 22 more | 53 min |
| Aug 3, 3:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Bottineau, Burleigh, Cass, Cavalier and 34 more | 7 hr |
| 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.