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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Glasgow, MT

June 6, 1997Garfield County, Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1997, 11:20 AM MDT for Garfield County, Montana. It was in force for 40 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 6, 1997, 11:20 AM MDT (17:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1997, 12:00 PM MDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Glasgow, MT
Area
Whole counties

County Garfield County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:22 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

Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 272 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, Great_falls, MT at 12:00Z on 1997-06-06Temperature 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, Great_falls, MT at 12:00Z on 1997-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
986 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
168 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 1:26 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWGarfield64 min
Jun 6, 6:40 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningGGWGarfield2 hr
Jun 6, 1:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPhillips47 min
Jun 6, 4:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPhillips54 min
Jun 6, 5:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPhillips63 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.