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Mesoscale Discussion 1572

July 8, 20048 counties in Nebraska; Fall River County, South Dakota; Goshen County, Wyoming

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 8, 2004, 2:18 PM MDT for 8 counties in Nebraska; Fall River County, South Dakota; Goshen County, Wyoming. It was in force for 117 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 8, 2004, 2:18 PM MDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2004, 4:15 PM MDT
In force: 117 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Banner County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Fall River County, SD, Goshen County, WY

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 592Jul 8, 2:40 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 236 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 251 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -375 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1171 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 2:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cherry, Cheyenne, Dawes and 11 more	6 hr
Jul 8, 5:35 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cherry, Cheyenne, Deuel and 9 more	115 min
Jul 7, 7:20 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butte, Harding, Meade, Perkins	85 min
Jul 7, 8:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Butte, Harding, Meade, Perkins	5 hr
Jul 8, 12:34 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Corson	86 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in Wyoming, 2004 Every mesoscale discussion in 2004

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.