Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Great Falls, MT

June 18, 1999Meagher County, Montana

NWS Great Falls, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1999, 6:57 PM MDT for Meagher 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 18, 1999, 6:57 PM MDT (00:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 1999, 7:30 PM MDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Great Falls, MT
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Meagher County, MT

The radar

The Great Falls radar (KTFX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 18, 7:05 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 52White Sulphur Spgs, 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 watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 18, 5:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

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 Jun 18, 3:00 PM MDT, 3 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 3:00 PM MDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 7:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFXFergus, Judith Basin36 min
Jun 18, 8:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFXGallatin31 min
Jun 19, 3:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFXFergus46 min
Jun 19, 4:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFXGallatin36 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.