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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Billings, MT

July 9, 1995Golden Valley County, Musselshell County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1995, 5:49 PM MDT for Golden Valley County, Musselshell County, Montana. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 1995, 5:49 PM MDT (23:49 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 1995, 6:30 PM MDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT
Area
Whole counties

Counties Golden Valley County, MT, Musselshell County, MT

The nearest sounding before it

Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 178 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, Great_falls, MT at 12:00Z on 1995-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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, Great_falls, MT at 12:00Z on 1995-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -24 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1675 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 4:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZSweet Grass37 min
Jul 9, 5:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZGolden Valley, Wheatland67 min

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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.