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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Glasgow, MT

July 21, 1993Roosevelt County, Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this tornado warning at Jul 21, 1993, 6:04 PM MDT for Roosevelt County, Montana. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 21, 1993, 6:04 PM MDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 1993, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Glasgow, MT
Area
Whole counties

County Roosevelt County, MT

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 366 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 1993-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 59 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 1993-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
59 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-285 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
825 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Glasgow, MT issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 21, 6:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWGarfield, Petroleum65 min
Jul 21, 6:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWRoosevelt65 min
Jul 21, 7:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWGarfield63 min
Jul 21, 7:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWSheridan58 min
Jul 21, 7:56 PM MDTTornado WarningGGWValley64 min
Jul 21, 8:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWRoosevelt60 min
Jul 21, 8:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWSheridan61 min
Jul 21, 9:07 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGGWMcCone, Richland3 hr
Jul 21, 9:38 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGGWSheridan3 hr
Jul 21, 10:17 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGGWMcCone, Richland4 hr
Jul 21, 10:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWRichland36 min
Jul 22, 2:51 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningGGWRoosevelt5 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.