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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Glasgow, MT

August 27, 1997Valley County, Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1997, 7:55 PM MDT for Valley County, Montana. It was in force for 65 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
Aug 27, 1997, 7:55 PM MDT (01:55 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 1997, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Glasgow, MT
Area
Whole counties

County Valley County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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 watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 27, 3:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 17 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 1997-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1641 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 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
1641 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2711 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.7

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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 Glasgow, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 27, 1:21 PM MDT, 6 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 1:21 PM MDT, 6 hours 34 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 6:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPhillips60 min
Aug 27, 6:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWRoosevelt, Sheridan60 min
Aug 27, 6:47 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGGWRoosevelt3 hr
Aug 27, 7:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWRichland, Roosevelt60 min
Aug 27, 7:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPhillips60 min
Aug 27, 9:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDawson65 min
Aug 27, 10:14 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGGWRoosevelt6 hr
Aug 27, 10:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDawson69 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.