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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 422

June 9, 200012 counties in Montana; Big Horn County, Campbell County, Sheridan County, Wyoming

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 9, 2000, 2:30 PM MDT for 12 counties in Montana; Big Horn County, Campbell County, Sheridan County, Wyoming. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 2000, 2:30 PM MDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2000, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Big Horn County, MT, Custer County, MT, Dawson County, MT, Garfield County, MT, Musselshell County, MT, Petroleum County, MT, Powder River County, MT, Prairie County, MT, Rosebud County, MT, Treasure County, MT, Wibaux County, MT, Yellowstone County, MT, Big Horn County, WY, Campbell County, WY, Sheridan County, WY

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 2:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZBig Horn64 min
Jun 9, 3:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZPowder River50 min
Jun 9, 3:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCampbell48 min
Jun 9, 3:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZBig Horn56 min
Jun 9, 4:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZPowder River50 min
Jun 9, 4:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZRosebud61 min
Jun 9, 5:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCuster, Powder River56 min
Jun 9, 5:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZRosebud50 min
Jun 9, 6:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZBig Horn, Powder River57 min
Jun 9, 7:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter, Powder River56 min

The nearest sounding before it

Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 285 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Riverton, WY at 12:00Z on 2000-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Riverton, WY at 12:00Z on 2000-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 6:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDaniels, Dawson, Garfield, McCone, Petroleum, Phillips and 6 more4 hr
Jun 9, 4:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCarter, Fallon5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Montana, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Wyoming, 2000Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2000

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.