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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Billings, MT

July 23, 2000Powder River County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2000, 9:46 PM MDT for Powder River County, Montana. It was in force for 59 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
Jul 23, 2000, 9:46 PM MDT (03:46 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 2000, 10:45 PM MDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT
Area
Whole counties

County Powder River County, MT

The nearest sounding before it

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 323 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, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 00:00Z on 2000-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1642 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 00:00Z on 2000-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1642 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3058 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.4

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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 Jul 23, 8:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 8:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
815 PM MDT SUN JUL 23 2000

.MON AND TUE...

UPDATES FORTHCOMING.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRESENTLY OVER BIG HORN COUNTY AND ARE SHOWING
SIGNS OF TURNING RIGHT.  WILL BE RECONFIGURING THE ZONES FOR SEVERE
STORMS IN A LARGER AREA. WILL ALSO KEEP A MENTION OF ISOLATED STORMS
FROM BILLINGS WEST...BUT THESE SHOULD PETER OUT BEFORE MIDNIGHT. CHB

.WED...THU...AND FRI...
RIDGE SLOWLY SHIFTS EASTWARD ON WED WITH DISTURBANCES MOVING THROUGH
OVERALL FLOW ON THU AND FRI WITH THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING LATE IN THE
DAY THU AND FRI. MAIN ACTIVITY WILL BE CONFINED TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER
ON FRI...AFTER RIDGE HAS SHIFTED AND THICKNESS VALUES HAVE FALLEN. WILL
TREND TEMPS ON A DOWNWARD PATTERN AFTER WED...YET KEEP READINGS AROUND
NORMAL. SPRINGER

BIL BBBTT 060/086 059/088 056/089 059/086 059/086 522000 54
LVM BBBTT 053/083 052/086 053/085 055/085 055/085 522000 54
HDN BBBTT 058/088 057/090 055/090 057/088 057/088 524000 54
MLS BBBTT 064/087 061/089 059/089 059/089 062/086 524000 54
4BQ BBBTT 061/085 059/087 056/090 058/090 058/088 524000 54
BHK BBBTT 058/082 051/085 055/088 057/088 057/085 524200 54
SHR BBBTT 055/086 053/088 054/089 054/089 054/087 523000 54

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 6:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZGolden Valley, Stillwater, Yellowstone62 min
Jul 23, 7:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZBig Horn, Treasure, Yellowstone60 min
Jul 23, 8:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZBig Horn, Rosebud60 min
Jul 23, 8:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter, Fallon52 min
Jul 23, 9:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCuster, Powder River, Rosebud65 min
Jul 23, 10:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter, Powder River58 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.