Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Glasgow, MT
NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1995, 4:04 PM MDT for McCone County, Montana. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1995, 4:04 PM MDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1995, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Glasgow, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County McCone County, MT
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 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
- 917 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1197 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 6, 3:30 PM MDT, 34 minutes before
MTZ008-062230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT 330 PM MDT TUE JUN 6 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST MONTANA UNTIL 8 PM MDT... AS OF 3 PM...RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTHERN PHILLIPS COUNTY...EXTENDING SOUTHEAST THROUGH NORTHERN GARFIELD COUNTY. WEAKENING A LITTLE...THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 20 MPH. HEAVY SHOWERS OCCURRED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN PHILLIPS COUNTY...BUT NOTHING SEVERE HAS BEEN REPORTED. PERSONS IN SOUTHERN PHILLIPS...NORTHERN GARFIELD...AND SOUTHWEST VALLEY COUNTY...CAN EXPECT HEAVY SHOWERS FROM THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SIMONSEN
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 3:32 PM MDT, 32 minutes before
MTZ008-062230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT 330 PM MDT TUE JUN 6 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST MONTANA UNTIL 8 PM MDT... AS OF 3 PM...RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTHERN PHILLIPS COUNTY...EXTENDING SOUTHEAST THROUGH NORTHERN GARFIELD COUNTY. WEAKENING A LITTLE...THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 20 MPH. HEAVY SHOWERS OCCURRED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN PHILLIPS COUNTY...BUT NOTHING SEVERE HAS BEEN REPORTED. PERSONS IN SOUTHERN PHILLIPS...NORTHERN GARFIELD...AND SOUTHWEST VALLEY COUNTY...CAN EXPECT HEAVY SHOWERS FROM THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SIMONSEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Glasgow, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 1:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield, Phillips | 57 min |
| Jun 6, 5:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Valley | 33 min |
| Jun 6, 5:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Valley | 31 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.