Alert archive / Montana / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 1999, 6:27 PM MDT for Carter County, Montana. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 25, 1999, 6:27 PM MDT (00:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1999, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carter County, MT
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 205 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 6:28 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Ekalaka, MT | Spotter report of dime size hail. |
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
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 327 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
- 4959 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1683 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 25.7
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 Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 7:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Custer | 19 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.