Alert archive / Montana / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this tornado warning at Jun 21, 1995, 8:35 PM MDT for Custer County, Montana. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 1995, 8:35 PM MDT (02:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1995, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Custer County, MT
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 415 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2038 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBIL 220236 TORBIL MTC017-220300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 835 PM MDT WED JUN 21 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BILLINGS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MONTANA ...WEST CENTRAL CUSTER COUNTY AT 8:30 PM MDT...THE MILES CITY SHERIFF'S OFFICE REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD APPROXIMATELY TWO MILES SOUTH OF MILES CITY NEAR FORT KEOGH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. HOCKENBERRY
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 4:12 PM MDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
WYZ051-053-220115-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHERIDAN WY
412 PM MDT WED JUN 21 1995
...THUNDERSTORMS OVER JOHNSON AND SHERIDAN COUNTIES...
AT 4 PM...BILLINGS RADAR INDICATED MODERATE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING
OVER NORTHCENTRAL JOHNSON COUNTY AND EASTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY. THESE
STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND ARE
LIKELY PRODUCING MODERATE RAINFALL.
DEADLY LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND HAIL CAN ACCOMPANY
THUNDERSTORMS. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION...SEEK
SHELTER INDOORS AND STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMTION.
WCJIN-WYNE
LOCKHART
: 2Rb{zv?.FbRzSpecial weather statement, Jun 21, 4:12 PM MDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
WYZ051-053-220115-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHERIDAN WY
412 PM MDT WED JUN 21 1995
...THUNDERSTORMS OVER JOHNSON AND SHERIDAN COUNTIES...
AT 4 PM...BILLINGS RADAR INDICATED MODERATE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING
OVER NORTHCENTRAL JOHNSON COUNTY AND EASTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY. THESE
STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND ARE
LIKELY PRODUCING MODERATE RAINFALL.
DEADLY LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND HAIL CAN ACCOMPANY
THUNDERSTORMS. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION...SEEK
SHELTER INDOORS AND STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMTION.
WCJIN-WYNE
LOCKHART
: 2Rb{zv?.FbRzThe office that day
Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 6:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Dawson | 65 min |
| Jun 21, 7:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Rosebud | 49 min |
| Jun 21, 8:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Rosebud | 49 min |
| Jun 21, 8:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Custer | 66 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.