Alert archive / Montana / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this tornado warning at Jul 15, 1995, 4:59 PM MDT for Powder River County, Montana. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1995, 4:59 PM MDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1995, 5:38 PM MDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Powder River County, MT
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 262 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
- 268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBIL 152302 TORBIL MTC075-160000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 459 PM MDT SAT JUL 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BILLINGS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MONTANA ...EAST CENTRAL POWDER RIVER COUNTY AT 4:58 PM MDT, RAPID CITY WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THE POSSIBILITY OF A TORNADO IN EASTERN POWDER RIVER COUNTY, SOUTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF BROADUS. THIS STORM IS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM AND MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY LARGE HAIL, DESTRUCTIVE WINDS, AND HEAVY RAIN. 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. POHL/RICHMOND
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, Jul 15, 4:52 PM MDT, 7 minutes before
WYZ050-051-160000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHERIDAN WY ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 452 PM MDT SAT JUL 15 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER FAR NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING AT 445 PM... THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF SHERIDAN... OR NEAR PARKMAN AND RANCHESTER. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 10 TO 20 MILES NORTH OF SHERIDAN...RIGHT ALONG THE MONTANA BORDER. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST/SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN PART OF SHERIDAN COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO STORMS IN YOUR AREA. HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS...SO STAY INDOORS UNTIL THEY PASS ON BY. WCJIN-WYNE JAD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 3:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Big Horn | 61 min |
| Jul 15, 5:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Big Horn, Rosebud | 65 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.