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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 340

June 7, 2019Carter County, Fallon County, Powder River County, Montana; 9 counties in South Dakota; 4 counties in Wyoming

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 7, 2019, 3:45 PM MDT for Carter County, Fallon County, Powder River County, Montana; 9 counties in South Dakota; 4 counties in Wyoming. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 2019, 3:45 PM MDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2019, 10:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2.5 in
Strongest gust expected
65 kt

Counties Carter County, MT, Fallon County, MT, Powder River County, MT, Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Harding County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Ziebach County, SD, Campbell County, WY, Crook County, WY, Sheridan County, WY, Weston County, WY

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 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
5%
Ten or more severe wind reports
40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
30%
Ten or more severe hail reports
40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
70%

Warnings issued inside it

13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 4:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZPowder River54 min
Jun 7, 5:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRLawrence, Pennington16 min
Jun 7, 5:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter58 min
Jun 7, 5:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster, Pennington22 min
Jun 7, 5:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRLawrence, Pennington38 min
Jun 7, 5:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRLawrence22 min
Jun 7, 5:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRButte, Lawrence, Meade63 min
Jun 7, 6:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter60 min
Jun 7, 6:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHarding60 min
Jun 7, 6:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter31 min
Jun 7, 6:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHarding, Perkins66 min
Jun 7, 7:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHarding57 min
Jun 7, 7:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHarding, Perkins65 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 108 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2019-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2019-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2420 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 5:28 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarter, Fallon92 min
Jun 7, 2:54 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButte, Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Meade, Oglala Lakota and 1 more3 hr
Jun 7, 12:37 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLaramie2 hr
Jun 7, 1:41 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Horn, Fremont, Hot Springs, Johnson, Natrona, Sublette and 1 more2 hr

Nearby

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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.