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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Glasgow, MT

August 26, 1995Valley County, Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 1995, 6:48 PM MDT for Valley County, Montana. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 26, 1995, 6:48 PM MDT (00:48 UTC)
Expired: Aug 26, 1995, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Glasgow, MT
Area: Whole counties

County Valley County, MT

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 26, 7:10 PM MDT	Tornado F0	Fort Peck, MT

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 17 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGGW 270048
TORGGW
MTC105-270145-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
648 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GLASGOW HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS..........................
 
IN NORTHEAST MONTANA
 
   ...SOUTHERN VALLEY COUNTY
 
AT 645 PM MDT A SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTH OF THE
CITY OF GLASGOW. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS
TORNADO IS MOVING TOWARDS THE CITY OF FT. PECK.
 
 
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE
INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  GET TO
A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE.  AVOID jWINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR
BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS.
 
 
 
&
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 26, 8:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	McCone, Richland, Roosevelt	57 min
Aug 26, 9:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Richland	57 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.