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Tornado Watch 383

June 9, 2001Big Horn County, Carter County, Powder River County, Montana; 11 counties in South Dakota; 6 counties in Wyoming

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 9, 2001, 2:45 PM MDT for Big Horn County, Carter County, Powder River County, Montana; 11 counties in South Dakota; 6 counties in Wyoming. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 2001, 2:45 PM MDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2001, 10:00 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Big Horn County, MT, Carter County, MT, Powder River County, MT, Bennett County, SD, Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Harding County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Campbell County, WY, Crook County, WY, Johnson County, WY, Niobrara County, WY, Sheridan County, WY, Weston County, WY

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 3:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCrook56 min
Jun 9, 3:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRWeston57 min
Jun 9, 4:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRLawrence65 min
Jun 9, 4:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster61 min
Jun 9, 5:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington56 min
Jun 9, 5:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington55 min
Jun 9, 6:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRJackson57 min
Jun 9, 7:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon, Jackson58 min

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 338 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2001-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 177 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2001-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 111 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
177 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1334 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
136 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, 8:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBig Horn, Powder River, Rosebud, Treasure, Yellowstone5 hr
Jun 9, 11:45 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCuster, Daniels, Dawson, Fallon, Garfield, McCone and 10 more6 hr
Jun 9, 2:45 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCCuster, Dawson, Fallon, Garfield, McCone, Prairie and 4 more7 hr
Jun 9, 3:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCGoshen, Laramie, Platte6 hr

Nearby

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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.