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Mesoscale Discussion 1290

June 26, 201211 counties in Montana; 18 counties in North Dakota; 7 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 26, 2012, 2:06 PM MDT for 11 counties in Montana; 18 counties in North Dakota; 7 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 2012, 2:06 PM MDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2012, 3:00 PM MDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
60%
All 36 counties

Daniels County, MT, Dawson County, MT, Fallon County, MT, McCone County, MT, Phillips County, MT, Prairie County, MT, Richland County, MT, Roosevelt County, MT, Sheridan County, MT, Valley County, MT, Wibaux County, MT, Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Divide County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Williams County, ND, Butte County, SD, Corson County, SD, Harding County, SD, Meade County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 234 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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 nearest sounding before it

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 234 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 2012-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 708 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 2012-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
708 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-447 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2005 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
12 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 7:12 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlaine, Chouteau, Dawson, Fergus, Garfield, Hill and 11 more93 min
Jun 25, 10:27 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlaine, Chouteau, Fergus, Garfield, Hill, Liberty and 3 more93 min
Jun 26, 12:23 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlaine, Chouteau, Hill67 min
Jun 26, 6:16 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGlacier, Hill, Liberty, Pondera, Teton, Toole89 min
Jun 26, 11:08 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlaine, Cascade, Chouteau, Glacier, Hill, Liberty and 3 more37 min
Jun 26, 11:20 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBlaine, Cascade, Chouteau, Glacier, Hill, Lewis and Clark and 4 more6 hr
Jun 26, 2:21 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlaine, Cascade, Chouteau, Hill, Lewis and Clark, Liberty and 3 more54 min
Jun 25, 7:37 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBennett, Corson, Dewey, Haakon, Hughes, Jackson and 11 more83 min
Jun 25, 10:38 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeadle, Brown, Clark, Edmunds, Faulk, Hand and 4 more67 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in Montana, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2012Every mesoscale discussion in 2012

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.