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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Glasgow, MT
NWS Glasgow, MT issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 2000, 8:38 PM MDT for Phillips County, Montana. It was in force for 67 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 8, 2000, 8:38 PM MDT (02:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2000, 9:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Glasgow, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Phillips County, MT
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 9:30 PM MDT | Hail 1.25 | Fourchette, 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 8, 8:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2294 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jul 8, 8:17 PM MDT, 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 8:17 PM MDT, 21 minutes before
NORTHEAST MONTANA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT 817 PM MDT SAT JUL 8 2000 ...UPDATE FOR SVR WATCH COMING OUT FOR THE CWFA TONIGHT... SUPERCELLS OVR TFX CWFA WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO OUR WESTERN ZONES. ENVIRONMENT IS PRETTY GOOD FOR CONTINUATION OF THE SUPERCELLS OVR OUR CWFA TONIGHT. GETTING WORRIED ABOUT FLASH FLOODING WITH THUNDERSTORMS. WILL ISSUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR CENTRAL CWFA FOR TONIGHT. WILL REWORD THE POPS IN ZONES...AND ADD THE SVR WORDING TO THE ZONES. TEMPS AND WINDS LOOK GOOD. GGW TTTTT 060/083 060/083 058/083 060/087 061/091 946464/75631 GDV TTTTT 063/085 060/085 061/084 060/088 061/093 946464/75631 PROTON
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 8, 5:44 PM MDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
544 PM MDT SAT JUL 8 2000
TIME (MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0804 AM 6 NW WIBAUX MT 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/08/00 WIBAUXLocal storm report, Jul 8, 5:54 PM MDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
544 AM MDT SAT JUL 8 2000
TIME (MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0T804 PM 6 NW WIBAUX MT 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/08/00 WIBAUXThe office that day
Everything else NWS Glasgow, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 7:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Phillips | 55 min |
| Jul 8, 9:42 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Phillips | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 9:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Valley | 65 min |
| Jul 8, 10:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Petroleum | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 10:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield | 73 min |
| Jul 8, 10:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Phillips | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 11:23 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GGW | Garfield, Valley | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 11:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield | 95 min |
| Jul 8, 11:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | McCone | 96 min |
| Jul 9, 12:31 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Prairie | 89 min |
| Jul 9, 1:13 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | McCone | 62 min |
| Jul 9, 3:50 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Dawson, Wibaux | 55 min |
| Jul 9, 12:23 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GGW | McCone | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Phillips | 53 min |
| Jul 9, 3:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Petroleum | 57 min |
| Jul 9, 3:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Phillips | 62 min |
| Jul 9, 3:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Valley | 65 min |
| Jul 9, 3:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Petroleum | 64 min |
| Jul 9, 4:13 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GGW | Petroleum | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 4:13 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GGW | Petroleum | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 4:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield | 59 min |
| Jul 9, 4:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Valley | 62 min |
| Jul 9, 4:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield | 54 min |
| Jul 9, 4:57 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GGW | Garfield, Valley | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 5:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield | 69 min |
| Jul 9, 5:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Valley | 56 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.