Alert archive / Montana / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Glasgow, MT
NWS Glasgow, MT issued this tornado warning at Aug 13, 1993, 6:10 PM MDT for McCone County, Montana. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 1993, 6:10 PM MDT (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 1993, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Glasgow, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County McCone County, MT
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 6:10 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Circle, MT |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 88 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2393 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Glasgow, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 6:33 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Dawson, Richland | 57 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.