Alert archive / Montana / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 2000, 5:02 PM MDT for Powder River County, Montana. It was in force for 28 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 5, 2000, 5:02 PM MDT (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2000, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Powder River County, MT
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 237 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 5:25 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Broadus, MT | NWS post storm ground survey confirmed an F0 (winds 42-72 mph) tornado. Tornado damaged some trees. This was the same tornado that touched down 5 miles north of Epsie at 1804 MST. |
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 262 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
- 420 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 668 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 317 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KBYZ 052305 TORBIL MTC075-052330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 502 PM MDT WED JUL 5 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BILLINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN POWDER RIVER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MONTANA * UNTIL 530 PM MDT * AT 502 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF SONNETTE ALONG US HIGHWAY 212 28 MILES NORTHWEST OF BROADUS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...NORTHERN POWDER RIVER COUNTY. THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! $$ RASCH/MIDDENDORF LAT...LON 4579 10623 4541 10624 4526 10506 4578 10502
The office that day
Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 6:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Fallon | 65 min |
| Jul 4, 6:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Carter | 62 min |
| Jul 4, 7:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Fallon | 62 min |
| Jul 5, 4:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Powder River | 63 min |
| Jul 5, 5:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Rosebud | 56 min |
| Jul 5, 5:35 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BYZ | Powder River | 55 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.