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Mesoscale Discussion 305
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 11, 2019, 3:48 PM CDT for 21 counties in Minnesota; 13 counties in North Dakota; 12 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 2019, 3:48 PM CDT (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2019, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties
Aitkin County, MN, Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Cass County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Cook County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Lake County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Griggs County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Traill County, ND, Beadle County, SD, Brown County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Day County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Hand County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Spink County, SD
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 192 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 330 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
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 2:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 9:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Benton, Big Stone, Cass, Chippewa, Clay and 21 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in South 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.