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Mesoscale Discussion 1847

July 24, 2005Carter County, Montana; 9 counties in North Dakota; 10 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 24, 2005, 1:14 PM MDT for Carter County, Montana; 9 counties in North Dakota; 10 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 24, 2005, 1:14 PM MDT (19:14 UTC)
Expired: Jul 24, 2005, 3:15 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Carter County, MT, Adams County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Morton County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Butte County, SD, Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Harding County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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 671Jul 24, 1:50 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 1962 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 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 24, 1:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Carter	7 hr
Jul 24, 2:14 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aurora, Brule, Davison, Gregory, Jerauld, Kingsbury and 3 more	91 min
Jul 24, 2:30 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Aurora, Brookings, Brule, Buffalo, Charles Mix, Davison and 13 more	2 hr
Jul 24, 4:22 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aurora, Brookings, Brule, Buffalo, Charles Mix, Davison and 13 more	83 min
Jul 24, 9:33 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Douglas, Hanson, Hutchinson and 7 more	117 min
Jul 24, 3:10 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Union	95 min
Jul 24, 3:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clay, Union, Yankton	5 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Montana, 2005 Every mesoscale discussion in 2005

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.