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Mesoscale Discussion 1239

June 21, 2007Richland County, Wibaux County, Montana; 9 counties in North Dakota; 6 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 21, 2007, 1:43 PM MDT for Richland County, Wibaux County, Montana; 9 counties in North Dakota; 6 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 92 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 2007, 1:43 PM MDT (19:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2007, 3:15 PM MDT
In force: 92 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Richland County, MT, Wibaux County, MT, Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Harding County, SD, Meade County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

Tornado Watch 438Jun 21, 3:40 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 62 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -338 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1961 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 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
Jun 20, 6:38 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaverhead, Broadwater, Carbon, Cascade, Chouteau, Deer Lodge and 19 more	67 min
Jun 20, 8:38 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Broadwater, Cascade, Chouteau, Deer Lodge, Fergus, Gallatin and 16 more	67 min
Jun 21, 1:10 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Dickey, Emmons, Grant, LaMoure, Logan and 3 more	95 min
Jun 21, 1:29 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Bowman, Burleigh, Dickey, Emmons, Grant and 13 more	8 hr
Jun 21, 4:34 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Dickey, Emmons, Grant, Hettinger, McIntosh and 3 more	86 min
Jun 21, 2:55 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Codington, Deuel, Grant, Roberts	95 min
Jun 21, 6:14 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brookings, Brown, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Day and 11 more	91 min
Jun 21, 8:10 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Buffalo and 19 more	35 min
Jun 21, 8:38 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more	6 hr
Jun 21, 1:13 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Buffalo and 22 more	62 min
Jun 21, 2:15 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Buffalo and 19 more	30 min
Jun 21, 3:37 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Dewey, Fall River, Haakon and 12 more	7 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2007 Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2007 Mesoscale Discussions in Montana, 2007 Every mesoscale discussion in 2007

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.