Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Glasgow, MT

Issued

Jun 22, 1997, 6:05 PM MDT (00:05 UTC)

Expired

Jun 22, 1997, 7:15 PM MDT

In force

70 min

Issued by

NWS Glasgow, MT

Area

Whole counties

County McCone County, MT

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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SVRGGW
MTC055-230115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
605 PM MDT SUN JUN 22 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GLASGOW HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST MONTANA
 
   ...MCCONE COUNTY
 
AT 605 PM MDT...GLASGOW DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20
MILES WEST-NORTHWEST OF CIRCLE. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT
25 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITY OF WELDON BY 630 PM MDT.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
WATERHOUSE

NWS Glasgow, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 22, 1:38 AM MDT, 16 hours 27 minutes earlier.

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

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

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.