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Mesoscale Discussion 1898

August 5, 20048 counties in Montana

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 5, 2004, 5:20 PM MDT for 8 counties in Montana. It was in force for 85 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 5, 2004, 5:20 PM MDT (23:20 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2004, 6:45 PM MDT
In force: 85 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Big Horn County, MT, Carbon County, MT, Golden Valley County, MT, Musselshell County, MT, Rosebud County, MT, Stillwater County, MT, Treasure County, MT, Yellowstone County, MT

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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 nearest sounding before it

Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 265 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: 111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -386 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 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
Aug 5, 12:35 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaverhead, Broadwater, Cascade, Deer Lodge, Flathead, Gallatin and 12 more	2 hr
Aug 5, 1:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Beaverhead, Broadwater, Cascade, Chouteau, Deer Lodge, Gallatin and 17 more	6 hr
Aug 5, 3:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Big Horn, Carbon, Golden Valley, Musselshell, Rosebud, Stillwater and 2 more	6 hr
Aug 5, 4:06 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaverhead, Broadwater, Cascade, Chouteau, Deer Lodge, Gallatin and 16 more	84 min
Aug 5, 5:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Blaine, Daniels, Dawson, Fergus, Garfield, McCone and 6 more	8 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Montana, 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.