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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Great Falls, MT

August 13, 1999Gallatin County, Madison County, Montana

NWS Great Falls, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1999, 1:26 PM MDT for Gallatin County, Madison County, Montana. It was in force for 49 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 13, 1999, 1:26 PM MDT (19:26 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 1999, 2:15 PM MDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Great Falls, MT
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Gallatin County, MT, Madison County, MT

The radar

The Great Falls radar (KTFX), 227 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 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 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 Great Falls, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 13, 9:15 AM MDT, 4 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 9:15 AM MDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 13, 12:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFXBeaverhead47 min
Aug 13, 2:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFXBeaverhead60 min
Aug 13, 2:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFXBeaverhead, Madison50 min
Aug 13, 3:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFXGallatin, Madison50 min
Aug 13, 4:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFXBeaverhead, Madison44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Montana, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

Sources

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