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Mesoscale Discussion 1238
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 5, 2017, 5:52 PM CDT for 21 counties in Minnesota; 42 counties in North Dakota; 31 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2017, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2017, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 94 counties
Becker County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Polk County, MN, Pope County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Burke County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Cass County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Grant County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Renville County, ND, Richland County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Steele County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Towner County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND, Ward County, ND, Wells County, ND, Beadle County, SD, Brown County, SD, Brule County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Corson County, SD, Day County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Grant County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Potter County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Spink County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Walworth County, SD, Ziebach County, SD
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -426 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1791 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 9:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard and 11 more | 84 min |
| Jul 5, 3:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Grant and 3 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2017Every mesoscale discussion in 2017
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.