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Mesoscale Discussion 853

May 23, 20044 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 23, 2004, 5:50 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 85 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2004, 5:50 PM MDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2004, 7:15 PM MDT
In force: 85 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Carter County, MT, Powder River County, MT, Dawes County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Harding County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Campbell County, WY, Converse County, WY, Crook County, WY, Niobrara County, WY, Weston County, WY

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 98 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 525 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 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
May 23, 2:09 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carter, Custer, Powder River, Rosebud	2 hr
May 23, 3:00 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Carter, Powder River	5 hr
May 22, 6:11 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Burt, Butler, Cass, Clay, Colfax and 21 more	94 min
May 22, 6:23 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Butler, Cass, Clay, Douglas, Fillmore and 18 more	67 min
May 22, 9:40 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee and 2 more	5 hr
May 22, 10:33 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee and 2 more	87 min
May 23, 12:21 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Richardson	24 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in Wyoming, 2004 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.