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Mesoscale Discussion 1024
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 8, 2019, 12:59 PM CDT for 9 counties in Minnesota; Cass County, Ransom County, Richland County, North Dakota. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2019, 12:59 PM CDT (17:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2019, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
Counties Becker County, MN, Clay County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Cass County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:02 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 281 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
- 149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -327 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1691 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 8, 3:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Traverse | 88 min |
| Jun 8, 4:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen and 8 more | 94 min |
| Jun 7, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Barnes, Benson, Bowman, Burleigh, Cavalier and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 7, 8:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bowman, Grant, Hettinger, Sioux, Slope | 87 min |
| Jun 7, 11:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burleigh, Emmons, Kidder, Logan, McIntosh, Sioux | 56 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2019Every mesoscale discussion in 2019
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.