Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Glasgow, MT
NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1995, 6:58 PM MDT for Phillips County, Montana. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 1995, 6:58 PM MDT (00:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1995, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Glasgow, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Phillips County, MT
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 502 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3008 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KGGW 110058 RRA SVRGGW MTC071-110200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT 658 PM MDT MON JUL 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GLASGOW HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS.......................... IN NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA ...SOUTHWESTERN PHILLIPS COUNTY...INCLUDING ZORMTAN AND THE LITTLE ROCKIES. RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING SOUTHWEST PHILLIPS COUNTY... MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. VERY STRONG WINDS OCCURRED WITH THE STORM AS IT MOVED THROUGH FERGUS COUNTY. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. NNNN
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, Jul 10, 6:00 PM MDT, 58 minutes before
MTZ005-009-110100 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT 600 PM MDT MON JUL 10 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT... AS OF 545 PM...RADAR SHOWED AN ISOLATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD FORMED VERY SUDDENLY IN WESTERN GARFIELD COUNTY...NEAR THE MISSOURI RIVER. THAT'S ABOUT 80 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GLASGOW. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. PERSONS IN NORTHERN GARFIELD...SOUTHEAST PHILLIPS...AND SOUTHWEST VALLEY COUNTIES CAN EXPECT HAIL AND STRONG WINDS FROM THE STORM. SIMONSEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Glasgow, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 4:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Phillips | 63 min |
Nearby
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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.