Alert archive / North Dakota / Mesoscale Discussions in 2016
Mesoscale Discussion 881
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 11, 2016, 10:04 PM MDT for 26 counties in North Dakota; Perkins County, South Dakota. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2016, 10:04 PM MDT (04:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2016, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties
Adams County, ND, Benson County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Burke County, ND, Dunn 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, Ramsey County, ND, Renville County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Towner County, ND, Ward County, ND, Williams County, ND, Perkins County, SD
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:04 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 597 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:36 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Grant and 10 more | 84 min |
| Jun 12, 1:30 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Dickey, LaMoure, Ransom, Richland and 2 more | 90 min |
| Jun 12, 1:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cass, Ransom, Richland, Sargent, Steele, Traill | 7 hr |
| Jun 12, 12:41 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aurora, Brule, Buffalo, Gregory, Lyman, Tripp | 3 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.