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Mesoscale Discussion 1493

July 3, 201111 counties in Montana; 18 counties in North Dakota; Harding County, South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 3, 2011, 10:30 PM MDT for 11 counties in Montana; 18 counties in North Dakota; Harding County, South Dakota. It was in force for 90 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 3, 2011, 10:30 PM MDT (04:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2011, 12:00 AM MDT
In force: 90 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 30 counties

Carter County, MT, Custer County, MT, Daniels County, MT, Dawson County, MT, Fallon County, MT, McCone County, MT, Prairie County, MT, Richland County, MT, Roosevelt County, MT, Sheridan County, MT, Wibaux County, MT, Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Burke County, ND, Divide County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Renville County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Ward County, ND, Williams County, ND, Harding County, SD

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 230 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:31 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 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 3, 6:29 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Big Horn, Blaine, Carbon, Custer, Dawson, Fergus and 14 more	2 hr
Jul 3, 8:02 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Big Horn, Carter, Custer, Daniels, Dawson, Fallon and 13 more	58 min
Jul 3, 8:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Daniels, Richland, Roosevelt, Sheridan, Wibaux	3 hr
Jul 4, 12:56 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benson, Bottineau, Cavalier, Eddy, Foster, Grand Forks and 13 more	64 min
Jul 4, 2:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barnes, Benson, Burleigh, Cass, Cavalier, Dickey and 22 more	7 hr
Jul 4, 5:09 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barnes, Cass, Dickey, Eddy, Foster, Grand Forks and 13 more	2 hr
Jul 4, 2:51 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bennett, Campbell, Corson, Custer, Dewey, Edmunds and 17 more	54 min
Jul 4, 3:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Beadle, Bennett, Brown, Brule, Buffalo, Campbell and 30 more	8 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2011 Mesoscale Discussions in Montana, 2011 Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2011 Every mesoscale discussion in 2011

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.