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Mesoscale Discussion 1630

August 5, 2013Cherry County, Nebraska; 18 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 5, 2013, 6:52 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska; 18 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 5, 2013, 6:52 PM MDT (00:52 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2013, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 80%

Counties Cherry County, NE, Bennett County, SD, Butte County, SD, Corson County, SD, Custer County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Harding County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Todd County, SD, Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:54 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 470Aug 5, 7:00 PM MDT

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
Aug 6, 1:42 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock	93 min
Aug 6, 1:48 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock	4 hr
Aug 6, 4:07 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown, Burt and 39 more	83 min
Aug 6, 5:35 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Colfax and 12 more	4 hr
Aug 6, 8:26 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cass, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha, Otoe, Sarpy	64 min
Aug 6, 4:22 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Butler, Colfax, Cuming and 23 more	2 hr
Aug 6, 5:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Burt, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming, Dodge and 10 more	3 hr
Aug 5, 6:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 6 more	5 hr
Aug 5, 9:18 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Haakon, Jones, Meade, Ziebach	57 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2013 Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2013 Every mesoscale discussion in 2013

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.