Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Great Falls, MT
NWS Great Falls, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 1998, 2:03 PM MDT for 4 counties in Montana. It was in force for 62 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 1998, 2:03 PM MDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 1998, 3:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Great Falls, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cascade County, MT, Chouteau County, MT, Judith Basin County, MT, Meagher County, MT
The radar
The Great Falls radar (KTFX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 2:04 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 54 | (Gfa)Malmstrom Afb, MT | |
| Sep 9, 2:10 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Vaughn, MT | |
| Sep 9, 2:35 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 66 | Armington, MT | |
| Sep 9, 2:50 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Carter, MT |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 30 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Great Falls, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 2:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Teton | 62 min |
| Sep 9, 3:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Chouteau, Hill | 46 min |
| Sep 9, 3:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Blaine, Hill | 60 min |
| Sep 9, 3:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Liberty | 60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.