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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 481
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 8, 2015, 3:05 PM MDT for Carter County, Powder River County, Montana; 9 counties in South Dakota; Campbell County, Crook County, Weston County, Wyoming. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2015, 3:05 PM MDT (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2015, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Carter County, MT, Powder River County, MT, Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Ziebach County, SD, Campbell County, WY, Crook County, WY, Weston County, WY
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 3:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Lawrence, Meade | 55 min |
| Aug 8, 3:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 63 min |
| Aug 8, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 54 min |
| Aug 8, 5:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade, Pennington | 64 min |
| Aug 8, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade, Pennington | 60 min |
| Aug 8, 5:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Crook | 39 min |
| Aug 8, 6:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Crook | 51 min |
| Aug 8, 6:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Meade, Pennington, Ziebach | 59 min |
| Aug 8, 6:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade, Pennington | 66 min |
| Aug 8, 7:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon | 39 min |
| Aug 8, 7:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Jackson, Pennington | 62 min |
| Aug 8, 7:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte | 44 min |
| Aug 8, 8:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Jackson, Mellette | 69 min |
| Aug 8, 9:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Pennington, Ziebach | 65 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 2:18 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter | 87 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2015Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Wyoming, 2015Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Montana, 2015Every severe thunderstorm watch 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.