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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Glasgow, MT

July 23, 2000Roosevelt County, Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2000, 8:19 PM MDT for Roosevelt County, Montana. It was in force for 71 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, 8:19 PM MDT (02:19 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 2000, 9:30 PM MDT
In force
71 min
Issued by
NWS Glasgow, MT
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Roosevelt County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 118 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 7:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWSheridan53 min
Jul 23, 8:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWGarfield66 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.