Alert archive / Montana / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Glasgow, MT
NWS Glasgow, MT issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2000, 9:06 PM MDT for Valley County, Montana. It was in force for 54 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, 9:06 PM MDT (03:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2000, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Glasgow, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Valley County, MT
The radar
The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:08 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, 9:25 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Glasgow, MT | Skywarn spotters reported a tornado near the Burke Ranch in southwest Valley County. The tornado remained in rural grazing land and did not cause any damage. |
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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 17 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.
008 WFUS55 KGGW 080308 TORGGW MTC105-080400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT 906 PM MDT WED JUN 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GLASGOW HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN VALLEY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MONTANA * UNTIL 1000 PM MDT * AT 858 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 38 MILES WEST OF THE PINES RECREATION AREA...OR ABOUT 41 MILES NORTHWEST OF JORDAN... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... THE PINES RECREATION AREA AT 950 PM MDT DUCK CREEK FISHING ACCESS SITE AT 955 PM MDT PROTON/MCNULTY 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, 8:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Phillips | 45 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.