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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Billings, MT

August 11, 2000Carter County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2000, 9:45 PM MDT for Carter County, Montana. It was in force for 60 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
Aug 11, 2000, 9:45 PM MDT (03:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 11, 2000, 10:45 PM MDT
In force
60 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 03:45 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
Aug 11, 9:50 PM MDTHail 0.75Boyes, 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

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 207 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, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 2000-08-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 795 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, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 2000-08-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 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
795 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3260 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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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 Billings, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 11, 8:50 PM MDT, 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 8:50 PM MDT, 55 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
850 PM MDT FRI AUG 11 2000

.SAT AND SUN...

AN UPPER LOW OVER SOUTHERN SASKATCHEWAN WITH A TRAILING VORTICITY TROUGH
INTO EASTERNMOST MONTANA WAS QUICKLY EXITING THE STATE. A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS OVER CUSTER AND FALLON COUNTIES...BUT
INSTABILITY TRIGGER WAS QUICKLY MOVING INTO THE DAKOTAS. ONLY STORM
ACTIVITY OVER THE FORECAST AREA AT THE MOMENT IS OVER CARTER COUNTY. A
NEARLY FLAT 500MB HEIGHT RIDGE MOVES IN FOR THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.
WILDFIRE SMOKE HAS REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN THE LIVINGSTON AREA.

WILL ISSUE AN UPDATE TO ZONES TO REMOVE ISOLATED STORMS FOR WEST AND
CENTRAL FORECAST AREA. MINIMUM TEMPS LOOK GOOD. MAY NEED TO MAKE MINOR
ADJUSTMENTS TO WINDS. AN UPDATE WILL BE SENT. CANEPA

.MON...TUE...AND WED...
EXTENDED MODELS PRETTY SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY. FLOW FAIRLY ZONAL FOR
MONDAY. RIDGE STARTS TO BUILD BACK UP ON TUESDAY AS STRONG WAVE MOVES
INTO THE NORTHWEST COAST. THE RIDGE PROGGED TO GET BANGED DOWN ON
WEDNESDAY AS THE AFOREMENTIONED WAVES SWEEPS ACROSS SOUTHERN CANADA. A
SECONDARY WEAKER WAVE PROGGED TO SWEEP FARTHER SOUTH INTO THE WEST
TUESDAY. WILL KEEP THE MENTION OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE WEST...BUT PULL
THEM OUT OF THE EAST. STRONG WAVE THEN CRASHES THE RIDGE DOWN WEDNESDAY
AND PUSHES A STRONG COLD FRONT ACROSS THE AREA. THIS FRONT COULD PRODUCE
STRONG WINDS ON WEDNESDAY...SO WILL MENTION. HUMPHREY

BIL UUBTN 059/087 059/092 059/090 061/092 059/085 640000 55
LVM UUBTN 055/087 055/089 055/090 057/092 057/085 640000 55
HDN UUBTN 055/090 057/092 057/091 059/093 059/086 640000 55
MLS UUBBN 062/090 062/093 060/091 062/093 062/086 642000 55
4BQ UUBBN 060/090 060/092 060/091 062/093 062/086 642000 55
BHK UUBBN 058/088 058/093 057/090 059/092 059/085 642000 55
SHR UUBBN 055/090 057/090 056/090 058/092 058/085 640000 55

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 11, 9:28 PM MDT, 17 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 11, 8:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter59 min
Aug 11, 9:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Montana, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.