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Mesoscale Discussion 863

June 2, 20155 counties in Montana; Campbell County, Crook County, Sheridan County, Wyoming

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 2, 2015, 12:53 PM MDT for 5 counties in Montana; Campbell County, Crook County, Sheridan County, Wyoming. It was in force for 97 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2015, 12:53 PM MDT (18:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2015, 2:30 PM MDT
In force: 97 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 60%

Counties Big Horn County, MT, Carter County, MT, Golden Valley County, MT, Powder River County, MT, Yellowstone County, MT, Campbell County, WY, Crook County, WY, Sheridan County, WY

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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 nearest sounding before it

Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 297 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: 1945 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 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 1, 6:45 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carbon, Cascade, Fergus, Golden Valley, Judith Basin, Musselshell and 5 more	60 min
Jun 2, 12:37 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Converse, Goshen, Laramie, Niobrara, Platte	53 min
Jun 2, 2:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Niobrara, Weston	7 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Montana, 2015 Mesoscale Discussions in Wyoming, 2015 Every mesoscale discussion in 2015

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.