Alert archive / North Dakota / Mesoscale Discussions in 2020
Mesoscale Discussion 914
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 14, 2020, 1:20 PM MDT for 26 counties in North Dakota; 6 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2020, 1:20 PM MDT (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2020, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...severe thunderstorm watch likely
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 32 counties
Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Burke County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Divide County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Golden Valley 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, Renville County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Ward County, ND, Williams County, ND, Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Harding County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Ziebach County, SD
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 1386 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 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 14, 2:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 22 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:19 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burleigh, Dunn and 17 more | 116 min |
| Jun 14, 2:36 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Haakon, Hughes, Jackson, Jones, Lyman and 4 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2020Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.