Alert archive / North Dakota / Mesoscale Discussions in 2016
Mesoscale Discussion 1518
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 10, 2016, 7:54 PM MDT for 37 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 2016, 7:54 PM MDT (01:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2016, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Adams County, ND, Benson County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Burke County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Renville County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Stark County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Towner County, ND, Ward County, ND, Wells County, ND, Williams County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 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 nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 1983 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 863 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.6
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 10, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson, Ransom and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 10, 9:50 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Dickey, Grand Forks, Griggs, LaMoure and 7 more | 85 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North 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.