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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Glasgow, MT
NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2000, 9:47 PM MDT for Richland County, Montana. It was in force for 58 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 3, 2000, 9:47 PM MDT (03:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2000, 10:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Glasgow, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Richland County, MT
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 10:18 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Enid, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 6:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jul 3, 9:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 1264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 7.6
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 Glasgow, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 3, 8:35 PM MDT, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 8:35 PM MDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Glasgow, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 6:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield | 57 min |
| Jul 3, 6:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Phillips, Valley | 53 min |
| Jul 3, 7:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 7:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Valley | 59 min |
| Jul 3, 7:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Valley | 65 min |
| Jul 3, 7:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | McCone | 55 min |
| Jul 3, 8:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Roosevelt | 67 min |
| Jul 3, 8:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield | 60 min |
| Jul 3, 8:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Daniels | 66 min |
| Jul 3, 8:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | McCone | 63 min |
| Jul 3, 9:05 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Roosevelt | 55 min |
| Jul 3, 9:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | McCone | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 9:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Roosevelt | 53 min |
| Jul 3, 10:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Dawson | 66 min |
| Jul 3, 10:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Richland | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 11:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Dawson | 56 min |
| Jul 4, 12:35 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Prairie | 55 min |
| Jul 4, 1:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Petroleum | 53 min |
| Jul 4, 2:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield | 63 min |
| Jul 4, 3:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield | 65 min |
| Jul 4, 4:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Garfield | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 4:24 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | McCone | 66 min |
| Jul 4, 5:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | McCone | 64 min |
| Jul 4, 5:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Dawson | 65 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.