Alert archive / Montana / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Great Falls, MT
NWS Great Falls, MT issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 1996, 11:51 PM MDT for Toole County, Montana. It was in force for 39 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, 11:51 PM MDT (05:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1996, 12:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Great Falls, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Toole County, MT
The radar
The Great Falls radar (KTFX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:53 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGTF 270554 TORGTF MTC101-270630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 1151 PM MDT WED JUN 26 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREAT FALLS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH MONTANA ...SOUTHEASTERN TOOLE COUNTY AT 1150 PM MDT...GREAT FALLS RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO LOCATED 11 MILES EAST OF THE TOWN OF LEDGER IN EXTREME EASTERN PONDERA COUNTY. THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER 4IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. &
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, 6:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Fergus | 26 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 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.