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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Billings, MT

July 5, 1996Carter County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1996, 8:48 PM MDT for Carter County, Montana. It was in force for 57 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 1996, 8:48 PM MDT (02:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1996, 9:45 PM MDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT
Area
Whole counties

County Carter County, MT

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 205 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 327 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 1996-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1917 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 1996-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1917 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1088 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 7:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZBig Horn60 min
Jul 5, 7:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZRosebud50 min
Jul 5, 7:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCuster, Powder River61 min
Jul 5, 7:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZRosebud41 min
Jul 5, 7:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZRosebud37 min
Jul 5, 8:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCuster, Powder River58 min
Jul 5, 9:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter26 min
Jul 5, 11:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZPowder River60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Montana, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.