Alert archive / Montana / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Glasgow, MT
NWS Glasgow, MT issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2000, 8:15 PM MDT for Phillips County, Montana. It was in force for 45 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
- Jun 7, 2000, 8:15 PM MDT (02:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2000, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Glasgow, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Phillips County, MT
The radar
The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 8:43 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Sun Prairie, MT | Boaters near Fourchette Bay boat ramp reported a tornado briefly touching down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 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
- 334 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2825 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
098 WFUS55 KGGW 080214 TORGGW MTC071-080300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT 815 PM MDT WED JUN 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GLASGOW HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN PHILLIPS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MONTANA * UNTIL 900 PM MDT * AT 803 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF FOURCHETTE...OR ABOUT 41 MILES SOUTH OF MALTA...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... SUN PRAIRIE AT 820 PM MDT CONTENT AT 830 PM MDT VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. MCNULTY/PROTON NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Glasgow, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Phillips | 60 min |
| Jun 7, 9:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Valley | 54 min |
| Jun 7, 11:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Valley | 67 min |
| Jun 8, 12:05 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Valley | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 12:13 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Roosevelt, Valley | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 12:42 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Roosevelt | 63 min |
| Jun 8, 12:54 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Valley | 51 min |
| Jun 8, 1:22 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Sheridan | 38 min |
| Jun 8, 1:58 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Roosevelt | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 2:37 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Sheridan | 53 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.