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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Billings, MT

June 29, 1997Carter County, Custer County, Fallon County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1997, 9:08 PM MDT for Carter County, Custer County, Fallon County, Montana. It was in force for 62 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 29, 1997, 9:08 PM MDT (03:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1997, 10:10 PM MDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT
Area
Whole counties

Counties Carter County, MT, Custer County, MT, Fallon County, MT

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 29, 7:15 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 277 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, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 00:00Z on 1997-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 552 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 00:00Z on 1997-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
552 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2316 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.9

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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.

NWS Billings, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 29, 8:25 PM MDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 8:25 PM MDT, 43 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 6:09 PM MDTTornado WarningBYZTreasure61 min
Jun 29, 6:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZYellowstone64 min
Jun 29, 6:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZBig Horn65 min
Jun 29, 6:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZRosebud61 min
Jun 29, 6:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZTreasure63 min
Jun 29, 6:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZStillwater, Yellowstone64 min
Jun 29, 7:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZMusselshell61 min
Jun 29, 7:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCuster, Powder River60 min
Jun 29, 7:52 PM MDTTornado WarningBYZCuster, Rosebud48 min
Jun 29, 8:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCuster, Powder River59 min
Jun 29, 11:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZPowder River60 min
Jun 29, 11:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZPowder River61 min
Jun 29, 11:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter60 min
Jun 30, 12:56 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Montana, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.