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Mesoscale Discussion 1109

July 5, 20205 counties in North Dakota; 24 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 5, 2020, 3:32 PM CDT for 5 counties in North Dakota; 24 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 118 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 5, 2020, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2020, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 118 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe potential...watch likely
Chance of a watch: 80%

All 29 counties

Dickey County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Beadle County, SD, Brown County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Day County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Potter County, SD, Spink County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Walworth County, SD, Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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 text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 9:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Billings, Bowman, Divide, Dunn, Golden Valley, Hettinger and 4 more	119 min
Jul 4, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burke, Divide, Dunn and 9 more	5 hr
Jul 5, 1:25 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Burke, Divide, Dunn, Grant, Hettinger and 11 more	2 hr
Jul 5, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Barnes, Bowman, Burleigh, Cass, Dickey and 13 more	6 hr
Jul 5, 6:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Dickey, Emmons, Grant, Hettinger, LaMoure and 6 more	2 hr
Jul 4, 7:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Edmunds, McPherson	67 min
Jul 5, 4:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Pennington	2 hr
Jul 5, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 10 more	7 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2020 Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2020 Every mesoscale discussion in 2020

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.