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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Glasgow, MT

June 22, 1997Richland County, Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 1997, 5:45 PM MDT for Richland County, Montana. It was in force for 60 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 22, 1997, 5:45 PM MDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1997, 6:45 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Glasgow, MT
Area
Whole counties

County Richland County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 159 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 12:00Z on 1997-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1997-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 156 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2620 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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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 flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Glasgow, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 22, 1:38 AM MDT, 16 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 1:38 AM MDT, 16 hours 7 minutes before
MTZ016>027-221500-

NORTHEAST MONTANA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
135 AM MDT SUN JUN 22 1997

SURFACE LOW FORMS NEAR SE MT/NE WY/NW ND TODAY WITH A TROUGH EXTENDING
THROUGH NC MT AND INTO S ALBERTA WHERE SECOND WEAKER SURFACE LOW IS
LOCATED. ALL THIS TO MOVE EAST DURING REMAINDER OF FCST PERIOD WITH
CONDITIONS BECOMING COOLER AND MORE STABLE DURING LATER PERIODS. BEST
OMEGAS WILL BE IN FAR E MT AROUND MID DAY...MOVING INTO DKTAS AHEAD OF
TROUGH BY THIS EVENING WITH ONLY A BRIEF SHOT OF INCREASING RH FOR THE
NE THIS AFTERNOON. A SMALL WAVE SHOWS UP IN THE SW FLOW...MOVING FROM
NE WY AND SE MT THIS AFTERNOON AND DKTAS TNT. THE MAIN VORT ASSOCIATED
WITH THE UPPER LOW OVER THE PACIFIC NW MOVES THROUGH S ALBERTA AND INTO
S SASK BY MON WITH UPPER SW FLOW REMAINING OVER MT. BEST CHANCE OF
PRECIP AND T-STORMS WILL BE OVER FAR E MT THIS AFTERNOON BEFORE STORMS
MOVE INTO THE DAKOTAS...WHERE SPC HAS MDT RISK...AND REALLY BLOW UP
THIS EVENING. STATUS QUO ON HYDRO. LOCKHART

GGW 231 080/052/076
GDV 231 083/054/078

CCF
GGW BB 080/052 079/052 071 88231

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 3:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWRichland60 min
Jun 22, 4:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDawson60 min
Jun 22, 4:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWRichland60 min
Jun 22, 5:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWRoosevelt, Sheridan60 min
Jun 22, 5:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWRichland60 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.