Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 678

August 11, 200013 counties in Montana

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 11, 2000, 2:00 PM MDT for 13 counties in Montana. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 11, 2000, 2:00 PM MDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired
Aug 11, 2000, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Blaine County, MT, Daniels County, MT, Fergus County, MT, Garfield County, MT, Golden Valley County, MT, McCone County, MT, Musselshell County, MT, Petroleum County, MT, Phillips County, MT, Rosebud County, MT, Treasure County, MT, Valley County, MT, Yellowstone County, MT

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 11, 2:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPhillips63 min
Aug 11, 3:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPetroleum54 min
Aug 11, 3:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPhillips, Valley63 min
Aug 11, 3:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZRosebud51 min
Aug 11, 3:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWGarfield64 min
Aug 11, 4:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDaniels59 min
Aug 11, 4:35 PM MDTTornado WarningGGWDaniels55 min
Aug 11, 4:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWGarfield63 min
Aug 11, 5:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWMcCone58 min
Aug 11, 6:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWMcCone56 min

The nearest sounding before it

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 12:00Z on 2000-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 437 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 12:00Z on 2000-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
437 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-387 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2183 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 11, 5:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCuster, Dawson, Fallon, Prairie, Richland, Roosevelt and 2 more6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Montana, 2000Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2000

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.