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Mesoscale Discussion 1028

July 9, 2018Roosevelt County, Sheridan County, Montana; 7 counties in North Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 9, 2018, 9:24 PM MDT for Roosevelt County, Sheridan County, Montana; 7 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 96 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 9, 2018, 9:24 PM MDT (03:24 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2018, 11:00 PM MDT
In force: 96 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Roosevelt County, MT, Sheridan County, MT, Dunn County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Williams County, ND

The radar

The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:27 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

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 223 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: 628 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -242 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1392 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 362 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 6:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Richland, Roosevelt, Sheridan	8 hr
Jul 9, 6:22 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Powder River	113 min
Jul 9, 7:59 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Richland, Roosevelt, Sheridan	91 min
Jul 10, 1:50 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blaine, Chouteau, Custer, Daniels, Dawson, Fergus and 18 more	115 min
Jul 10, 2:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Blaine, Broadwater, Cascade, Chouteau, Daniels, Fergus and 21 more	7 hr
Jul 10, 4:28 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blaine, Garfield, Golden Valley, Musselshell, Petroleum, Phillips and 2 more	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, 2018 Mesoscale Discussions in Montana, 2018 Every mesoscale discussion in 2018

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.