Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2000, 5:15 PM MDT for Carter County, Montana. It was in force for 45 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
- Jun 8, 2000, 5:15 PM MDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2000, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 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 23:16 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 nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -568 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3252 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
317 WUUS55 KBYZ 082318 SVRBIL MTC011-090000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 515 PM MDT THU JUN 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BILLINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CARTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MONTANA * UNTIL 600 PM MDT * AT 515 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES SOUTH OF EKALAKA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... EKALAKA BY 540 PM MDT. $$ LAT...LON 4567 10480 4551 10456 4583 10411 4603 10453
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 Jun 8, 3:08 PM MDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 3:08 PM MDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 230 PM MDT THU JUN 08 2000 .FRI AND SAT... ...CORRECTED LVM/MLS/BHK/4BQ FIRST PD POP... ETA/AVN SIMILAR IN MODEL SOLUTIONS. BOTH MODELS BRING A WEAK WAVE INTO SC/SE MT IN SW FLOW THIS EVENING FOR ISOLD-SCT TSTORM DEVELOPMENT. ANOTHER WAVE MOVES INTO SC/SE MT BY LATE FRI AFTN FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF TSTORMS AS RR QUAD OF JET WILL BE IN FAVORED LOCATION IN COMBINATION WITH DISTURBANCE PLACEMENT...ENHANCING LIFT. GREATEST CAPE VALUES APPEAR TO BE WELL TO THE NORTH AGAIN THIS EVENING ALONG WITH LI VALUES OF -2 PER ETA MODEL...THIS WILL SHIFT TO THE EAST ON FRIDAY AS NEXT WAVE MOVES IN. FCST HIGHS WILL HINGE ON CLOUD COVER FRI. ALL GUIDANCES GIVE FCST HIGHS 10 DEGREES LOWER THAN MIXING FROM 700MB AND WILL LIKELY COMPROMISE ON FRI HIGHS. COOLER TEMPS MOVE IN ON SAT AS FLOW ALOFT BECOMES MORE W/NW AND NGM MOS/FAN GUIDANCE FAIRLY SIMILAR IN FCST HIGHS WHEN COMPARED TO MIXING FROM 700MB WITH EITHER ETA OR AVN. SPRINGER .SUN...MON...AND TUE... COOL AND UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL CONTINUE SUNDAY AND MONDAY ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA AS A WEAK PACIFIC SYSTEM MOVES EAST ALONG THE U.S./CANADIAN BORDER. NORTHWEST FLOW DEVELOPS FOR TUESDAY...BRINGING DRY AND CONTINUED COOL WEATHER. BEST CHANCE FOR SHOWERS WILL BE SUNDAY...WITH THE CHANCE DECREASING EACH DAY. MIDDENDORF BIL TTTEB 060/082 052/079 052/075 050/075 050/077 543320 61 LVM TTTTB 057/078 045/076 046/072 044/072 044/074 543320 61 HDN TTTEB 058/082 049/080 049/077 047/077 047/079 543320 61 MLS TTEEB 060/085 055/081 057/082 055/077 053/077 543230 61 4BQ TTEEB 058/082 053/082 055/080 053/075 051/075 543320 61 BHK TTEEB 056/083 050/079 052/077 050/072 048/072 543230 61 SHR TTTEB 057/083 045/080 045/076 045/074 045/072 542330 61
The office that day
Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 5:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Golden Valley, Musselshell | 51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.