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Mesoscale Discussion 1745

July 13, 200516 counties in Montana

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 13, 2005, 5:21 PM MDT for 16 counties in Montana. It was in force for 84 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 13, 2005, 5:21 PM MDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2005, 6:45 PM MDT
In force: 84 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Carbon County, MT, Fergus County, MT, Gallatin County, MT, Garfield County, MT, Golden Valley County, MT, Judith Basin County, MT, Madison County, MT, Musselshell County, MT, Park County, MT, Petroleum County, MT, Phillips County, MT, Stillwater County, MT, Sweet Grass County, MT, Valley County, MT, Wheatland County, MT, Yellowstone County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 2565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 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 13, 12:37 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Daniels, Dawson, Garfield, McCone, Petroleum, Phillips and 4 more	2 hr
Jul 13, 1:40 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaverhead, Broadwater, Cascade, Deer Lodge, Fergus, Gallatin and 10 more	3 hr
Jul 13, 2:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Carbon, Daniels, Fergus, Gallatin, Garfield, Golden Valley and 12 more	9 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.