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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Billings, MT

July 27, 2000Fallon County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2000, 10:17 PM MDT for Fallon County, Montana. It was in force for 43 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
Jul 27, 2000, 10:17 PM MDT (04:17 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2000, 11:00 PM MDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT
Area
Whole counties

County Fallon County, MT

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 27, 10:25 PM MDTHail 0.75Baker, 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 279 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 2000-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1916 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 2000-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 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
1916 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2256 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
12.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 6:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZPowder River44 min
Jul 27, 8:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZFallon42 min
Jul 27, 9:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZFallon43 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.