Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Great Falls, MT
NWS Great Falls, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1995, 8:47 PM MDT for Cascade County, Montana. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1995, 8:47 PM MDT (02:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1995, 9:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Great Falls, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cascade County, MT
The nearest sounding before it
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1223 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 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 KGTF 040251 RRA SVRGTF MTC013-040345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 847 PM MDT SAT JUN 3 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREAT FALLS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA ...SOUTHERN CASCADE COUNTY AT 845PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GREAT FALLS, MT. THIS STORM LIKELY CONTAINS HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. IT WAS MOVING TO THE WEST OR NORTHWEST AT 10 TO 15 MPH AND WILL LIKELY AFFECT THE GREAT FALLS AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 3, 7:06 PM MDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
MTZ003-004-006-040200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 702 PM MDT SAT JUN 3 1995 AT 7PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHWEST HILL COUNTY SOUTHWESTWARD INTO NORTHERN LEWIS AND CLARK COUNTY. RADAR INDICATED THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS WEAKENING AS IT MO DTO THE NORTHWEST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. HOWEVER...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WAS STILL LIKELY. NEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN CHOUTEAU COUNTY AND WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WERE INDICATED BETWEEN GERALDINE AND BIG SANDY. ALSO...RADAR INDICATED ANOTHER LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM WESTERN MEAGHER NORTHEAST INTO JUDITH BASIN COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT ABOUT 15 MPH AND WILL BE IN THE HELENA AREA IN THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 7:14 PM MDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
MTZ003-004-006-040200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 702 PM MDT SAT JUN 3 1995 AT 7PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHWEST HILL COUNTY SOUTHWESTWARD INTO NORTHERN LEWIS AND CLARK COUNTY. RADAR INDICATED THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS WEAKENING AS IT MOVED NORTHWEST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. HOWEVER...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WAS STILL LIKELY. NEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN CHOUTEAU COUNTY AND WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WERE INDICATED BETWEEN GERALDINE AND BIG SANDY. ALSO...RADAR INDICATED ANOTHER LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM WESTERN MEAGHER COUNTY NORTHEAST INTO JUDITH BASIN COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT ABOUT 15 MPH AND WILL BE IN THE HELENA AREA IN THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 7:41 PM MDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
MTZ005-040245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 741 PM MDT SAT JUN 3 1995 AT 735PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHERN CHOUTEAU COUNTY INTO SOUTHERN BLAINE COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF CHINOOK, MT AND WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT ABOUT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LIKELY PRODUCING HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 7:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
MTZ005-040245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 741 PM MDT SAT JUN 3 1995 AT 735PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHERN CHOUTEAU CO4UNTY INTO SOUTHERN BLAINE COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF CHINOOK, MT AND WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT ABOUT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LIKELY PRODUCING HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 7:59 PM MDT, 48 minutes before
MTZ005-040300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 759 PM MDT SAT JUN 3 1995 AT 8PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED TO MOVE NORTHWEST THROUGH NORTHERN CHOUTEAU COUNTY INTO SOUTHERN HILL COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVIEST RAINFALL VICINITY OF BOX ELDER, MT WITH UP TO AN INCH AND ONE HALF OF RAIN IN THE PAST 3 HOURS. PONDING OF WATER HAS BEEN REPORTED NORTH OF BIG SANDY AND SOME FLOODING OF THE SMALLER CREEKS FEEDING INTO BIG SANDY CREEK WAS POSSIBLE. RADAR INDICATED THAT RAIN MAY CONTINUE FOR ANOTHER HOUR. NEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING TO THE SOUTHEAST AND COULD AFFECT THE AREA LATER THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 8:02 PM MDT, 45 minutes before
MTZ005-040300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 759 PM MDT SAT JUN 3 1995 AT 8PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED TO MOVE NORTHWEST THROUGH NORTHERN CHOUTEAU COUNTY INTO SOUTHERN HILL COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVIEST RAINFALL VICINITY OF BOX ELDER, MT WITH UP TO AN INCH AND ONE HALF OF RAIN IN THE PAST 3 HOURS. PONDING OF WATER HAS BEEN REPORTED NORTH OF BIG SANDY AND SOME FLOODING OF THE HSMALLER CREEKS FEEDING INTO BIG SANDY CREEK WAS POSSIBLE. RADAR INDICATED THAT RAIN MAY CONTINUE FOR ANOTHER HOUR. NEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING TO THE SOUTHEAST AND COULD AFFECT THE AREA LATER THIS EVENING.
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.