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Mesoscale Discussion 1713

July 9, 200512 counties in Montana

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 9, 2005, 2:42 PM MDT for 12 counties in Montana. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 2005, 2:42 PM MDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2005, 4:45 PM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Big Horn County, MT, Custer County, MT, Dawson County, MT, McCone County, MT, Musselshell County, MT, Prairie County, MT, Richland County, MT, Roosevelt County, MT, Rosebud County, MT, Sheridan County, MT, Treasure County, MT, Yellowstone County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 131 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, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 12:00Z on 2005-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 898 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, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 12:00Z on 2005-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 117 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
898 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-592 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1917 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
133 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.

000 
ACUS11 KWNS 092042
SWOMCD
SPC MCD 092042 
NDZ000-MTZ000-092245-

MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 1713
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0342 PM CDT SAT JUL 09 2005

AREAS AFFECTED...S CNTRL THROUGH ERN MT AND EXTREME WRN ND

CONCERNING...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL 

VALID 092042Z - 092245Z

THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP INITIALLY OVER S CNTRL MT THIS AFTERNOON
THEN NEWD THROUGH ERN MT AND PARTS OF WRN ND THIS EVENING. ISOLATED
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. AREA IS
BEING MONITORED FOR A POSSIBLE WW ISSUANCE WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF
HOURS.

THIS AFTERNOON A COLD FRONT EXTENDS FROM ERN MT SWWD INTO SERN AND S
CNTRL MT JUST N OF BILLINGS. SRN PORTION OF THIS BOUNDARY IS MOVING
SWD WHILE THE NRN PORTION CONTINUES SLOWLY EWD THROUGH ERN MT. LOW
LEVEL DEWPOINTS ARE IN THE 50S N OF THE FRONT...AND AS THIS BOUNDARY
CONTINUES SWD...MOIST NLY UPSLOPE FLOW WILL DEVELOP OVER S CNTRL MT.
POTENTIAL FOR INCREASING UPSLOPE IN CONJUNCTION WITH INCREASING MID
LEVEL ASCENT ASSOCIATED WITH APPROACHING SHORTWAVE TROUGH MAY
PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF
S CNTRL MT. ACTIVITY WILL SUBSEQUENTLY SPREAD NEWD WHERE STRONG
SURFACE HEATING IS PROMOTING MLCAPE FROM 1500 TO 2000 J/KG. FARTHER
NE ACROSS ERN MT THE PRE-FRONTAL WARM SECTOR REMAINS CAPPED...BUT
THE CAP SHOULD GRADUALLY WEAKEN AS SURFACE TEMPERATURES APPROACH OR
EXCEED 100F. THE WEAKENING CAP AND FRONTAL CONVERGENCE SHOULD
PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF STORMS ALONG THE FRONT OVER ERN MT DURING
THE EVENING...EVENTUALLY SPREADING INTO WRN ND.

..DIAL.. 07/09/2005

...PLEASE SEE WWW.SPC.NOAA.GOV FOR GRAPHIC PRODUCT...

ATTN...WFO...BIS...BYZ...GGW...

46800793 47420624 48810499 48950403 48350363 47010423
45860548 45250726 45940915 46420914

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 2:07 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Horn, Carbon, Gallatin, Golden Valley, Madison, Musselshell and 5 more113 min

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.