Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Great Falls, MT
NWS Great Falls, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1995, 6:44 PM MDT for Chouteau County, Hill County, Montana. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1995, 6:44 PM MDT (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1995, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Great Falls, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chouteau County, MT, Hill County, MT
The radar
The Great Falls radar (KTFX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3547 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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, Jul 8, 5:43 PM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
MTZ045-059-090200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 543 PM MDT SAT JUL 8 1995 AT 540 PM MDT THE GREAT FALLS DOPPLER RADAR WAS INDICATING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER EAST CENTRAL MEAGHER COUNTY ABOUT 10 TO 15 MILES NORTH OF WHITE SULFUR SPRINGS...APPROACHING SOUTHWEST JUDITH BASIN COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING GENERALLY EASTWARD ABOUT 30 MPH AND LIKELY INCLUDES HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. THE RADAR WAS INDICATING AROUND 0.70 INCH OR RAIN PER HOUR AT THIS TIME AND WILL BE CROSSING SOUTHERN JUDITH BASIN COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. ANOTHER STORM WITH HAIL LIKELY...WAS OVER SOUTHERN LIBERTY COUNTY MOVING EASTWARD ABOUT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL CROSS INTO SOUTHERN HILL COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. RESIDENTS IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR EVENING THUNDERSTORMS AS SOME HAIL AND STRONG WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. GTF/RH
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 5:51 PM MDT, 53 minutes before
MTZ045-059-090200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 543 PM MDT SAT JUL 8 1995 AT 540 PM MDT THE GREAT FALLS DOPPLER RADAR WAS INDICATING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER EAST CENTRAL MEAGHER COUNTY ABOUT 10 TO 15 MILES NORTH OF WHITE SULFUR SPRINGS...APPROACHING SOUTHWEST JUDITH BASIN COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING GENERALLY EASTWARD ABOUT 30 MPH AND LIKELY INCLUDES HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. THE RADAR WAS INDICATING AROUND 0.70 INCH OR RAIN PER HOUR AT THIS TIME AND WILL BE CROSSING SOUTHERN JUDITH BASIN COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. ANOTHER STORM WITH HAIL LIKELY...WAS OVER SOUTHERN LIBERTY COUNTY MOVING EASTWARD ABOUT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL CROSS INTO SOUTH0ERN HILL COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. RESIDENTS IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR EVENING THUNDERSTORMS AS SOME HAIL AND STRONG WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. GTF/RH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Great Falls, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 7:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Blaine, Chouteau, Hill | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 8:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Cascade, Lewis and Clark, Meagher | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 8:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Blaine | 80 min |
| Jul 9, 3:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Broadwater | 30 min |
| Jul 9, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Fergus | 61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.