Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Great Falls, MT
NWS Great Falls, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1996, 6:49 PM MDT for Fergus County, Montana. It was in force for 26 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, 6:49 PM MDT (00:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1996, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Great Falls, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fergus County, MT
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1796 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1324 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 9.6
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, Jun 26, 3:29 PM MDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
MTZ001-262145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 327 PM MDT WED JUN 26 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL LEWIS AND CLARK COUNTY... AT 320PM GREAT FALLS RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER RODGERS PASS IN CENTRAL LEWIS AND CLARK COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. GREAT FALLS RADAR ALSO INDICATED SEVERAL OTHER THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHERN AND SOUTHEAST LEWIS AND CLARK COUNTY. ONE THUNDERSTORM WAS 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF WILBUR MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF WOLF POINT WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Great Falls, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Liberty | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 7:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Blaine, Fergus | 41 min |
| Jun 26, 9:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Petroleum | 47 min |
| Jun 26, 10:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | TFX | Petroleum | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 10:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Pondera, Teton | 54 min |
| Jun 26, 11:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Toole | 26 min |
| Jun 26, 11:51 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | TFX | Toole | 39 min |
| Jun 27, 12:00 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Liberty | 45 min |
| Jun 27, 12:16 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | TFX | Liberty | 29 min |
| Jun 27, 12:41 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Hill, Liberty | 49 min |
| Jun 27, 5:37 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Pondera, Toole | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 6:17 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Liberty | 43 min |
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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.