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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Glasgow, MT

June 26, 1996Garfield County, Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 1996, 10:46 PM MDT for Garfield County, Montana. It was in force for 44 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: Jun 26, 1996, 10:46 PM MDT (04:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 1996, 11:30 PM MDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Glasgow, MT
Area: Whole counties

County Garfield County, MT

The nearest sounding before it

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 679 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -381 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1086 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGGW 270446
TORGGW
MTC033-270530-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
1046 PM MDT WED JUN 26 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GLASGOW HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST MONTANA
 
   ...SOUTHWESTERN GARFIELD COUNTY
 
AT 1045 PM MDT...GLASGOW DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
5 MILES SOUTH OF MOSBY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE TOWN OF MOSBY BY 1100 PM MDT AND SAND
SPRINGS BY 1115 PM MDT.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILAB0LE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
MARTIN

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 26, 7:14 PM MDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before

MTZ008-280300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
712 PM MDT THU JUN 27 1996

AT 710 PM MDT...GLASGOW DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WESHTERN VALLEY COUNTY TO THE NORTHEAST AT
40 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED
WITH THESE STORMS. IS IS ESTIMATED THAT THE STORMS WILL PASS JUST TO
THE NORTH OF GLASGOW BY 730 PM.

LOCKHART

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 7:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Phillips	61 min
Jun 26, 10:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Garfield	56 min
Jun 26, 11:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Garfield	58 min
Jun 27, 12:00 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Garfield	60 min
Jun 27, 12:25 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Valley	60 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.