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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Billings, MT

August 26, 1995Dawson County, Prairie County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 1995, 8:32 PM MDT for Dawson County, Prairie County, Montana. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 26, 1995, 8:32 PM MDT (02:32 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 1995, 9:30 PM MDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT
Area
Whole counties

Counties Dawson County, MT, Prairie County, MT

The nearest sounding before it

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 00:00Z on 1995-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1339 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, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 00:00Z on 1995-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1339 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2148 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.8

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 6:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCuster, Rosebud64 min
Aug 26, 7:48 PM MDTTornado WarningBYZCuster27 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.