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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Glasgow, MT
NWS Glasgow, MT issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 2000, 8:19 PM MDT for Garfield County, Montana. It was in force for 56 min. 3 reports 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 8, 2000, 8:19 PM MDT (02:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2000, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Glasgow, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Garfield County, MT
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 8:31 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Jordan, MT | |
| Jun 8, 8:38 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Sand Spgs, MT | |
| Jun 8, 9:00 PM MDT | Hail 1.25 | Sand Spgs, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 833 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -392 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1283 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 353 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 344 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KGGW 090220 TORGGW MTC033-090315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT 819 PM MDT THU JUN 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GLASGOW HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN GARFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MONTANA * UNTIL 915 PM MDT * AT 811 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 27 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BRUSETT...OR ABOUT 32 MILES NORTHEAST OF WINNETT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BRUSETT AT 915 PM MDT AT 819 PM MDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUDS NORTHWEST OF SAND SPRINGS. VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. PROTON NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Glasgow, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 6:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Prairie | 63 min |
| Jun 8, 6:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield | 54 min |
| Jun 8, 6:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | McCone | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 7:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Petroleum | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 7:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Dawson, Prairie | 68 min |
| Jun 8, 7:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield | 67 min |
| Jun 8, 8:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Phillips | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 8:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Valley | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 9:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 9:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | McCone | 66 min |
| Jun 8, 9:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Petroleum | 59 min |
| Jun 8, 10:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Valley | 57 min |
| Jun 8, 10:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 11:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Phillips | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 11:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Valley | 53 min |
| Jun 9, 1:19 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Valley | 56 min |
| Jun 9, 12:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Roosevelt | 64 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.